The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation
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J. Heart Lung Transplant. · Jul 2005
Blood transfusions decrease the incidence of acute rejection in cardiac allograft recipients.
Cardiac transplant recipients frequently receive a large number of transfusions. The objective of this study was to determine whether there is an association between total number of blood transfusions and cardiac allograft rejection. ⋯ The number of blood transfusions received by heart transplant recipients is inversely related with the number of acute rejection episodes.
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J. Heart Lung Transplant. · Jul 2005
Integrity of airway epithelium is essential against obliterative airway disease in transplanted rat tracheas.
The pathogenesis of obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation requires further elucidation. In this study we used rat trachea transplantation to examine the role of epithelium in the progression of obliterative airway disease. ⋯ We conclude that integrity of airway epithelium is essential for rat trachea transplants to be safeguarded from obliterative airway disease. For clinical lung transplantation the results of our study suggest that protection of the integrity of airway epithelium may be important in preventing the development of obliterative bronchiolitis.
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J. Heart Lung Transplant. · Jul 2005
Equivalence of flow velocities through bilateral pulmonary vein anastomoses in bilateral living-donor lobar lung transplantation.
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) during lung transplantation is useful for monitoring cardiac condition and pulmonary vascular anastomoses to detect vascular complications, but the parameters for evaluation by TEE during lung transplantation have not been established. ⋯ The flow velocities through the bilateral PV anastomoses are shown to be nearly equivalent during bilateral LDLLT, and the equivalence may be one factor for predicting the success of LDLLT.