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Successful double lung transplantation with a graft obtained from a methanol-poisoned donor
P Evrard1, P Hantson, E Ferrant
1Department of Intensive Care and Lung Transplant Team, Cliniques Universitaires de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium.
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|May 20, 1999
Abstract:
A 25-year-old woman developed "brain death" 48 h after acute methanol poisoning. After the elimination of methanol and the correction of metabolic disorders, organ donation was discussed. The lungs were transplanted into a 46-year-old woman suffering from cystic "emphysematous-like" lesions as a complication of lymphangioleiomyomatosis. The procedure was not complicated, and we have an uneventful follow-up of > 12 months. In addition to the lungs, the kidneys and the liver were also removed and transplanted with success.