European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Feb 2009
Case ReportsSurfactant as salvage therapy in life threatening primary graft dysfunction in lung transplantation.
Impaired surfactant activity may contribute to primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation. We assessed the role of surfactant treatment in lung transplant recipients with severe life threatening primary lung graft dysfunction. ⋯ Surfactant treatment improves oxygenation and may be life saving in patients with primary lung graft dysfunction.
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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Feb 2009
Endobronchial ultrasound-guided needle aspiration in the non-small cell lung cancer staging.
The aim of the study was to assess the diagnostic yield of the endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-NA) in the mediastinal staging in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. ⋯ (1) EBUS-NA is an effective and safe technique for mediastinal staging in NSCLC patients. (2) In patients with negative results of EBUS-NA, surgical exploration of the mediastinum should be performed.
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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Feb 2009
Multicenter StudyProfitability of our lung retrieval program from non heart beating donors.
In 2002 the first lung transplant from non heart beating (NHB) donors took place in Madrid. The objective of this study was to analyse our Maastricht type I NHB lung donors retrieval program and to check out its profitability. ⋯ A total of 58.1% of preserved lungs were implanted. The ratio of obtained lungs was 11.4% of actual donors and 7.7% of total occurrences. However, this percentage could have been higher if we take into account the number of valid lungs that were not transplanted because of the lack of recipients.