Lung Transplant Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Lung Transplant, including details on risks, prognosis, procedure, surgery, organ donation.

Advances in lung transplantation for patients who have cystic fibrosis.

Goldberg HJ, Deykin A

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, PBB Clinics-3, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. hjgoldberg@partners.org

Transplantation in patients who have cystic fibrosis (CF) presents important challenges regarding candidate selection and preoperative management, technical obstacles in the perioperative period, the postoperative management of medical comorbidities related to CF, and the psychosocial impact of transplantation. This article outlines some of these challenges and describes recent advances in approaching this endeavor in patients who have CF.

Published 30 April 2007 in Clin Chest Med, 28(2): 445-57.
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