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Elective transplant pneumonectomy in a 38-year-old man.

Onyeaka CV, Alexiou C, Rocco G, Hopkinson DN, Suvarna SK, Braidley PC, Locke TJ

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK. chinyere@bigfoot.com

Transplant pneumonectomy is a rarely performed procedure. It is occasionally carried out in the course of retransplantation. To our knowledge, resection of a transplanted lung without its replacement and with successful outcome in the adult has not been previously reported. We present a case of elective left transplant pneumonectomy in a 38-year-old man 6 years after left single-lung transplant. At 12 months after resection, the patient remains well, with good exercise tolerance.

Published 16 August 2005 in J Heart Lung Transplant, 24(8): 1140-2.
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