• M L Barr, F A Schenkel, M E Bowdish, and V A Starnes.
• Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90033, USA. mbarr@surgery.usc.edu
• Transplant. Proc. 2005 Nov 1; 37 (9): 3983-6.

AbstractLiving lobar lung transplantation was developed as a procedure for adult and pediatric patients considered too ill to await cadaveric transplantation. One hundred thirty-eight living lobar transplants have been performed in 133 patients at our institution between January 1993 and September 2004. Actuarial 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival are similar to ISHLT registry data. There has been no donor mortality, and morbidity has been relatively low. Long-term postoperative pulmonary function studies demonstrate the relatively smaller-sized lobes can provide similar pulmonary function and exercise capacity to bilateral cadaveric lung transplants. Living lobar lung transplantation should be considered a viable option in patients with end-stage lung disease deemed unable to await a cadaveric organ and in those patients in which further deterioration would make cadaveric transplantation inappropriate.

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