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Lung Rapid Recovery Procurement Combined with Abdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion in Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death
Published on: August 15, 2022
Ex vivo bilateral pulmonary embolectomy for donor lungs prior to transplantation
Mohammad Shihata1, Nitin Ghorpade, Dale Lien
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. mshihata@gmail.com
Abstract:
Pulmonary arterial embolic disease of donor lungs is a known entity. Its implications on the technicality, the perioperative management, and the outcome of lung transplantation depend on the extent of the embolic disease and the indicators of lung function at the time of procurement. We report a case of lung transplantation from a donor who was known to have significant acute pulmonary embolic disease and the perioperative management used to optimize the outcome.
