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Graft pneumonectomy and delayed contralateral lung transplantation.

Gómez de Antonio D, Gámez P, Córdoba M, Moradiellos J, Varela A

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain. dgavm@yahoo.es

We believe that contralateral single lung transplantation after graft pneumonectomy has not been reported yet in the literature. We present the case of an emphysematous patient who received a unilateral left lung transplant and had severe stenosis in bronchial anastomosis and bronchiectasis develop. Four years after transplantation we decided to perform a left pneumonectomy and a delayed right lung transplantation. Nine months after the procedure the patient is ambulatory and is not dependent on oxygen support.

Published 27 April 2007 in Ann Thorac Surg, 83(5): 1891-3.
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