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Single lung transplantation from a donor 8 months after double lung transplantation
Author(s) -
Bobylev D.,
Salman J.,
Sommer W.,
Ius F.,
Siemeni T.,
Avsar M.,
Kühn C.,
Niehaus A.,
Gottlieb J.,
Haverich A.,
Tudorache I.,
Warnecke G.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.14644
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , lung transplantation , lung , surgery
Scarcity of donors leads transplant surgeons to consider extended‐criteria lungs and occasionally to accept the unlikely. Here we report a case of successful single lung transplantation from a donor 8 months after double lung transplantation.