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Bilateral lung transplant in Gauchers type-1 disease.

Rao AR, Parakininkas D, Hintermeyer M, Segura AD, Rice TB

Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. rotaks@yahoo.com

We report a case of a patient who received a bilateral lung transplant for end-stage lung disease secondary to Gauchers type-1 disease with no evidence of recurrence of the disease in the transplanted lung.

Published 24 March 2005 in Pediatr Transplant, 9(2): 239-43.
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