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Heart-lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and giant pulmonary artery aneurysm – case report [PDF]
Backgound Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a rare condition that requires lung transplantation in patients’ refractory to medical therapy.
T. Eadington +2 more
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Heart-lung transplantation. [PDF]
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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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
R S, Bonser +2 more
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Evolution of the Surgical Management of Lung Cancer Invading the Spine: A Single Center Experience
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 +8 more
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Heart-lung transplantation: a necessity. [PDF]
Pêgo-Fernandes PM.
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Identification of common blood gene signatures for the diagnosis of renal and cardiac acute allograft rejection. [PDF]
To test, whether 10 genes, diagnostic of renal allograft rejection in blood, are able to diagnose and predict cardiac allograft rejection, we analyzed 250 blood samples from heart transplant recipients with and without acute rejection (AR) and with ...
Hsieh, Szu-Chuan +9 more
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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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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 +8 more
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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 +9 more
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Cardiac Imaging in Patients After Fontan Palliation: Which Test and When?
The Fontan operation represents the final stage of a series of palliative surgical procedures for children born with complex congenital heart disease, where a “usual” biventricular physiology cannot be restored.
Paolo Ciliberti +10 more
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