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Clinical Medicine, 1995 The last 30 years have seen lung transplantation grow from a procedure associated with absolute failure to one which now offers excellent outcomes for patients with advanced lung disease. It has brought much needed hope and is truly a remarkable story of medical advancement in the field of respiratory medicine.
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Einstein (São Paulo), 2015 ABSTRACT Lung transplantation is a globally accepted treatment for some advanced lung diseases, giving the recipients longer survival and better quality of life. Since the first transplant successfully performed in 1983, more than 40 thousand transplants have been performed worldwide. Of these, about seven hundred were in Brazil.
Afonso Júnior, José Eduardo +7 more
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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 +2 more
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Case Report: Esophagectomy and Azygos Continuation of the Inferior Vena Cava: A Lethal Combination
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is rare in the general population and even rarer among patients with esophageal carcinoma. In 90% of cases, this congenital IVC variant is isolated and does not affect the patient’s growth or ...
Yan Zhang +5 more
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Postoperative surgical complications after lung transplantation
Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition), 2015 This is a review article on the main postoperative complications after lung transplantation: airways complications, vascular complications, pleural complications, surgical wound complications, and abdominal complications.Incidence data, severity, and ...
M. de la Torre +6 more
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Biomolecular Concepts, 2021 Nowadays, mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase domain are studied in targeted therapy of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors including gefitinib and erlotinib.
Mirtavoos-mahyari Hanifeh +6 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 ObjectiveWe report our experience of transition to robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) for lung resections with the da Vinci Xi surgical system, exposing short-term results.Materials and methodsThis is a single-center, retrospective analysis of RATS
Alessandro Palleschi +4 more
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Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2022 Aim:Lung transplant recipients are the highest risk group in terms of infective complications among solid organ transplants. It has improved the management of the most common infectious complications with the aid of advances in diagnostic methods ...
Pinar Atagun Guney +7 more
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BMC Surgery, 2020 Background Mediastinal venous aneurysm is a very rare disease and can be easily misdiagnosed. Patients are often asymptomatic while venous aneurysm of large size with adjacent structures oppressed can lead to discomfort.
Cheng Fang +4 more
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Breathe, 2018 I was born in 1959 in Lisbon. My early years were marked by a typical family life, and we travelled a lot because of my father's work. I completed my schooling until the 12th grade and then started to work. In 1981, I completed mandatory military service at the marines' school.
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