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Inhaled nitric oxide ameliorates postoperative acute graft dysfunction after living-donor lobar lung transplantation
T Yoshikawa1, H Date, M Yamashita
1Second Department of Surgery, Okayama University School of Medicine, 2-5-1 Shikatacho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery : Official Publication of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery = Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi
|January 6, 2001
Abstract:
Inhaled nitric oxide, a selective pulmonary vasodilator, decreases mean pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance and improves oxygenation in previously unobtainable ways without significant changes in systemic hemodynamics. We report successful treatment of a patient with acute graft dysfunction after living-donor lobar lung transplantation using nitric oxide inhalation.