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Lung transplantation in a Jehovah's Witness
1Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
Abstract:
Patients of the Jehovah's Witness faith generally do not accept transfusions of blood or blood products but some will accept cadaveric organs for transplantation. We report a left single lung transplantation in a 48-year-old Hispanic female with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and secondary pulmonary hypertension. We believe this is the first reported case of lung transplantation in a Jehovah's Witness.