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Heart-lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and giant pulmonary artery aneurysm – case report [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020
Backgound Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a rare condition that requires lung transplantation in patients’ refractory to medical therapy.
T. Eadington, K. Santhanakrishnan, R. Venkateswaran   +2 more
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Heart–Lung transplantation: Meeting allocation challenges in France [PDF]

JHLT Open
Background: Our study aims to describe the French heart–lung graft allocation system, to compare it with allocation systems used in other countries, and to explore potential solutions to improve access to this rare transplantation procedure. Methods: Our
Justin Issard, Claire Merveilleux du Vignaux, Sébastien Renard, Thierry Lepoivre, Paul Michel Mertes, Richard Dorent, Eric Epailly, Sébastien Hascoet, Anne Olland, Jérôme Le Pavec, Elie Fadel, Laurent Savale, Olaf Mercier, MD, PhD   +12 more
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Heart-lung transplantation: a necessity. [PDF]

J Bras Pneumol, 2020
Pêgo-Fernandes PM.
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Heart-lung transplantation. [PDF]

J Thorac Dis, 2014
Heart-lung transplantation itself is not a particularly difficult operation technically. It is the setting in which this procedure is performed which is difficult. The three issues of importance in a successful outcome are appropriate harvest of the heart-lung bloc from the donor, careful explant of the heart and lungs of the recipient, and finally the
Huddleston CB, Richey SR.
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Heart-Lung Transplantation

Chest, 1988
The survival rate (average, 50%) of patients undergoing cardiopulmonary transplantation falls well below that expected for cardiac transplantation alone. We give a broad overview of the various grounds upon which this difference is likely based and discuss recent advances in each area: 1) criteria for the selection of candidates and donors, 2) methods ...
A. Michael Borkon, Bruce A. Reitz
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Heart-lung transplantation

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1989
Since the successful clinical reintroduction of heart and lung transplantation in 1981, more than 350 of these procedures have been performed worldwide. Although survival following this operation is less than that reported for heart transplantation, the results are improving. It is clear that the increased technical difficulty of the procedure combined
P R, Vouhé, P G, Dartevelle
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Evolution of the Surgical Management of Lung Cancer Invading the Spine: A Single Center Experience

Current Oncology, 2022
For patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer invading the spine, induction chemoradiotherapy combined with radical en bloc resection is the key to obtaining long-term survival.
Gabrielle Drevet, Théo Broussolle, Yanis Belaroussi, Lucie Duponchelle, Jean Michel Maury, Renaud Grima, Gualter Vaz, Clément Silvestre, François Tronc   +8 more
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HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America, 1990
The results of combined heart-lung transplantation have continued to improve following its reintroduction into clinical practice in 1981. En-bloc implantation has an apparent protective effect on subsequent tracheal anastomotic healing. Continuing developments in immunosuppression, rejection surveillance, and organ preservation will allow the procedure
R S, Bonser, S W, Jamieson
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High-affinity CD16 integration into a CRISPR/Cas9-edited CD38 locus augments CD38-directed antitumor activity of primary human natural killer cells

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2022
Background Adoptive transfer of natural killer (NK) cells with augmented antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) capabilities and resistance to CD38 targeting has the potential to enhance the clinical anti-myeloma activity of daratumumab (DARA ...
Long Chen, Richard Childs, Robert Reger, Mala Chakraborty, Joseph Andrew Clara, Emily R Levy, Stefan Barisic, Elena Cherkasova, David S J Allan   +8 more
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Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Optimized Referral and Listing Based on an Evolving Disease Concept

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2023
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) was once a devastating and fatal disease entity, the outlook of which has been significantly improved by the continued progress of medical treatment algorithms.
Xiaokun Hu, Ningying Ding, Wanqiu Songchen, Ruifeng Wang, Jing Chen, Ailing Zhong, Jinzhu Nan, Yujie Zuo, Heng Huang, Dong Tian   +9 more
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