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Metachronous single lung transplantation after contralateral pneumonectomy. A ''big'' challenge?
1Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery B, Louis Pradel Hospital, Claude Bernard University, INSERM U886, Bron, France.
Minerva Chirurgica
|May 24, 2007
Abstract:
Single lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis is an uncommon therapy. Contralateral pneumonectomy is, in these cases, rarely done before transplantation. Herein, we report the case of a single lung transplantation in a patient who had previously a contralateral pneumonectomy.

