• J. Heart Lung Transplant. · Nov 2006

    Case Reports

    Salvage right pneumonectomy in a patient with bronchial-pulmonary artery fistula after bilateral sequential lung transplantation.

    • Federico Rea, Giuseppe Marulli, Monica Loy, Luigi Bortolotti, Cinzia Giacometti, Marco Schiavon, and Fiorella Calabrese.
    • Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. federico.rea@unipd.it <federico.rea@unipd.it>
    • J. Heart Lung Transplant. 2006 Nov 1; 25 (11): 1383-6.

    AbstractBronchovascular fistula is a rare but fatal complication in lung transplant recipients. We report the successful salvage of a right pneumonectomy performed in a patient with a fistula between the right main bronchus and the pulmonary artery after ulcerative bronchitis caused by Aspergillus fumigatus.

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