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Prior cardiac surgery is not a contraindication for lung donor.

Toyoda Y, McCurry KR

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. toyoday@upmc.edu

We present two successful lung transplants utilizing lungs from a donor who had a previous cardiac surgery. We describe tips and pitfalls of harvesting donor lungs from redo-chest operations.

Published 25 June 2007 in Ann Thorac Surg, 84(1): 314-6.
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