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Recipient Airway Bronchoplasty for Donor "Pig Bronchus"
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 28, 2019
Abstract:
Dissemination of surgical techniques to manage rare donor airway anomalies may improve outcomes after lung transplantation. This report describes a case of an unsuspected donor tracheal bronchus that was successfully managed with a native right mainstem bronchoplasty.