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Review
. 2014 Jan 1;4(1):a015628.
doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a015628.

Overview of clinical lung transplantation

Jonathan C Yeung  1 , Shaf Keshavjee
Affiliations
Review

Overview of clinical lung transplantation

Jonathan C Yeung et al. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. .

Abstract

Since the first successful lung transplant 30 years ago, lung transplantation has rapidly become an established standard of care to treat end-stage lung disease in selected patients. Advances in lung preservation, surgical technique, and immunosuppression regimens have resulted in the routine performance of lung transplantation around the world for an increasing number of patients, with wider indications. Despite this, donor shortages and chronic lung allograft dysfunction continue to prevent lung transplantation from reaching its full potential. With research into the underlying mechanisms of acute and chronic lung graft dysfunction and advances in personalized diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to both the donor lung and the lung transplant recipient, there is increasing confidence that we will improve short- and long-term outcomes in the near future.

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