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	Lung transplant
		Lung transplant is surgery to replace one or both diseased lungs with healthy lungs from a human donor.
		Lung transplants may be recommended for patients with any severe lung disease.
		Lung transplant is not recommended for patients with serious illnesses, such as reduced kidney or liver function, or other serious diseases.
	www.healthscout.com /ency/article/003010.htm (342 words)

	Lung transplant: A treatment for life-threatening lung disease - MayoClinic.com
		Your lung allocation score is determined by the type and severity of lung disease and the likelihood of a transplant being successful — not the amount of time spent on the waiting list.
		The main blood vessels to and from the new lung and the main airway of the new lung are sewn to your main blood vessels and airway.
		The airways of the new lungs are attached to your main airway, and the main blood vessel (aorta) of the new heart is attached to your aorta.
	www.mayoclinic.com /health/lung-transplant/HB00046 (1457 words)

	Organ transplant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		An organ transplant is the transplantation of a whole or partial (A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function) organ from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor.
		Most pancreas transplants are performed for (Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria) diabetes mellitus with chronic renal failure due to diabetic (A disease affecting the kidneys) nephropathy and are transplanted together with a kidney.
		The kidney was the easiest organ to transplant, tissue-typing was simple, the organ was relatively easy to remove and implant, live donors could be used without difficulty, and in the event of failure kidney (Separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes) dialysis was available from the 1940s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/organ_transplant.htm (1968 words)

	Lung Transplant Program
		Lung transplant program medical director Aldo Iacono, M.D., can be reached for a consultation by calling 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).
		He was director of lung transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh, one of the largest and most successful lung transplant programs in the country, before moving his practice to the University of Maryland in 2005 to develop the Maryland program.
		A recognized lung transplant expert, Dr. Iacono has developed the only treatment shown to prevent chronic rejection after lung transplantation proven in a placebo-controlled randomized trial, which was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
	www.umm.edu /lung/index.html (478 words)

	Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Lung Transplantation
		Living donor transplants—when lobes, or sections, of a lung are transplanted from two living individuals to the person needing new lungs—are much less common than standard cadaveric transplants, which are transplants using lungs from people who have died.
		A cadaveric lung transplant is when the lungs being transplanted are from someone who is “brain dead.” A “living donor” transplant is the surgical removal of a right lower lobe from one person and a left lower lobe from another person, and the placement of these lobes into the person receiving the transplant.
		In transplant centers that perform both types of lung transplants in people with CF, the success rate for cadaveric transplants is approximately the same as the success rate for living donor transplants.
	www.cff.org /treatments/LungTransplantation (2067 words)

	Lung Transplant
		Lung transplantation for patients with severe diseases of the lung -- such as emphysema, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis and pulmonary hypertension -- is considered only after all other treatments have failed.
		It is important to remember that lung transplantation is not appropriate therapy for all patients with lung disease.
		The lung, whether single or double, is connected to the pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins and the main stem bronchus or airway.
	www.spiderspun.net /lungtx.htm (1874 words)

	eMedicine - Lung Transplantation : Article by Sat Sharma, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCCP, DABSM
		Lung transplantation is a life-preserving therapeutic intervention for a variety of end-stage pulmonary diseases that has been used successfully for the past 20 years.
		Following transplantation for fibrotic lung disease, typically a shift of the mediastinal structures occurs to the remaining native lung because of this lung's low compliance compared to the transplanted lung.
		The transplanted lung is susceptible to capillary leak in the postoperative period.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic2980.htm (9643 words)

	Lung Transplantation-BWH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Having a single lung transplant means having an operation to remove one of your diseased lungs and replacing it with a new lung.
		Rejection is the refusal of your body to recognize your new lung as its own recognition of the transplanted lung as being foreign to the body and the attempt to fight it and destroy it.
		You are also responsible to keep your appointments with the Lung Transplant Team to ensure that you are receiving the appropriate amount of each medication, that rejection is not occurring, and that you are not developing an infection.
	www.cheshire-med.com /programs/pulrehab/transplant.html (4308 words)

	Lung Transplant Surgery
		Living-related lobar transplantation was pioneered by Dr. Starnes at USC University Hospital and provides an alternative therapy for severely ill patients who are unlikely to survive the waiting that is often required for cadaveric organs to be available.
		Starnes was the first in the world to perform a living-related double lobar lung transplant on a patient with cystic fibrosis.
		Double lung transplantation is the procedure of choice for patients with suppurative lung disease and/or severe pulmonary hypertension.
	www.cts.usc.edu /lungtransplantprogram.html (343 words)

	Medical Lung Transplant Evaluation
		Lung transplantation is an exciting option for some patients with severe lung disease; it is not a treatment for everyone who suffers with shortness of breath.
		If you are accepted as a lung transplant candidate, your name and other important information are listed on a national computer and the search begins for a donor that matches you.
		The MCV Hospitals lung transplant team consists of physicians, surgeons, nurses, physical therapists, psychologists and many others all of whom seek to provide you with the best possible care throughout your evaluation, waiting period, hospitalization for operation, recovery and follow-up.
	www.pulm.vcu.edu /transplant.shtml (1260 words)

	Heartburn surgery helps lung transplant patients
		BOS is considered to be the main reason why the five-year survival rate for lung transplant patients is only 40 percent.
		While the study showed a clear benefit of the fundoplication surgery for lung transplant patients, what is still not clear is the mechanism by which GERD impacts the BOS, Davis said.
		Another explanation, according to Davis, is that the acid causes cells on the transplanted lungs to slough off, causing more donor materials to be presented to the immune system, causing inflammation.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-05/dumc-hsh050102.php (727 words)

	Lung Transplant - General Information
		There are lung transplants centers throughout the world; therefore, the information below is generalized as all centers and hospitals have their own criteria and set of guidelines.
		A patient who is accepted as a lung transplant candidate is given a pager to ensure that they can be contacted as soon as a suitable donor lung is available.
		It is not uncommon for any potential lung transplant recipient to have one or more "false alarms," where the patient is admitted for surgery only to find out that the donated organs are unsuitable for transplantation.
	www.copd-international.com /Library/lungtx_info.htm (712 words)

	Lung Transplant Program - Clinical Services - Children's Hospital Boston
		A lung transplant is an operation performed to replace a diseased lung with a healthy one from another person.
		In addition to lung transplants, selected patients with both heart disease and pulmonary disease are considered candidates for heart-lung transplantation.
		Lung transplantation at Children's is a multidisciplinary effort between the medical and surgical programs.
	www.childrenshospital.org /clinicalservices/Site2022/mainpageS2022P0.html (208 words)

	Heart-and-lung transplant Medical Information
		Heart-and-lung transplant is surgery to replace a diseased heart and lungs with a healthy heart and lungs from a human donor.
		The patient's heart and lungs are removed, and the donor heart and lungs are stitched into place.
		Heart-and-lung transplants are not recommended for patients who have poor kidney or liver function, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, or other serious diseases.
	www.drugs.com /enc/heart_and_lung_transplant.html (576 words)

	Lung Transplant Rejection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Lung transplant recipients undergo immunosuppression to prevent their body's immune system from rejecting the donated lung.
		The device also has the potential to be used on a surveillance basis for lung transplant recipients, by detecting the earliest proteomic signs of vascular changes associated with chronic rejection.
		It has been demonstrated in the scientific literature that vascular changes are some of the earliest and most sensitive changes associated with transplant rejection, and the endoarterial biopsy catheter has detected these changes in animal models of lung transplant rejection.
	www.vascularbiosciences.com /html/lung_transplant.html (347 words)

	Lung Transplants
		Lung transplants are urgently needed for patients with irreversible lung failure.
		Depending on the disease or the condition of the lung, it may be a single lung transplant, a double lung transplant, or even a heart/lung combination.
		These individuals must meet the qualifications for a lung transplant and then be put on a waiting list that may require a wait of years.
	www.transplantcoordinator.com /lung-transplants.html (264 words)

	Heart and Heart/Lung Transplants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A transplant is the replacement of a patient's diseased heart or heart and lungs with a normal organ(s) from someone who has died, called a donor.
		Patients on drugs to prevent transplant rejection are at risk for developing kidney damage, high blood pressure, osteoporosis (weakness of the major bones such as the hips and spine).
		To carefully monitor transplant patients for signs of heart rejection, small pieces of the transplanted organ are removed for inspection under a microscope.
	www.unav.es /emp/hrtlung.html (1508 words)

	Lung transplant
		Lung transplantation is a new procedure and there are few studies of bone problems in these patients.
		Spira, A. Osteoporosis and lung transplantation: a prospective study.
		Shane, E. Osteoporosis in lung transplantation candidates with end-stage pulmonary disease.
	courses.washington.edu /bonephys/tx/lungtx.html (323 words)

	ScienceDaily: Proteins May Predict Lung Transplant Rejection
		Lung transplant patients have the highest mortality rate of organ recipients, about 45% over five years, said lead investigator and pulmonologist Chris Wendt.
		Currently, there is no reliable way to predict which transplants will fail, and when signs of chronic rejection appear, it is usually too late to reverse it, she said.
		Lung transplants are a common therapy for many end-stage lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other diseases.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/11/061103083603.htm (934 words)

	Common cold virus leads to death in lung transplant patients
		The two were part of a group of 11 transplant patients who suffered clinically significant respiratory infection from HRV in both the upper and lower airways, overturning the long-held belief that HRV affects only upper airway tissue.
		Laurent Kaiser, M.D., of the Central Laboratory of Virology at the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland, and 13 associates assessed the incidence of chronic rhinovirus infection and its potential clinical impact on 69 lung transplant recipients at two centers.
		Lung transplant patients, with impaired immune systems due to drugs to halt rejection, are at potentially higher risk from the virus.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-12/ats-ccv121106.php (619 words)

	Lung Transplant Program at USC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The USC Lung Transplant Program Faculty and Staff, headed by Vaughn A. Starnes, M.D., is composed of experts in their respective fields of cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, immunology, critical care medicine, cystic fibrosis, immunosuppression, and rehabilitation.
		Dr. Starnes is a world-recognized leader and innovator in heart, heart-lung, and lung transplantation, and cardiothoracic surgery.
		Living Lobar Lung Transplantation was pioneered by Dr. Starnes at USC University Hospital and provides an alternative therapy for severely ill patients who are unlikely to survive the waiting that is often required for cadaveric organs to be available.
	www.usctransplant.org /lung (381 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Lung transplant
		Lung transplant is an extreme measure for patients with life-threatening lung disease or damage.
		The body's immune system considers the transplanted organ as an invader (much like an infection) and may attack it.
		To prevent rejection, organ transplant patients must take anti-rejection (immunosuppression) drugs (such as cyclosporine and corticosteroids) that suppress the body's immune response and reduce the chance of rejection.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/003010.htm (475 words)

	Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Lung Transplantation
		During the next decade, ongoing clinical and basic research promise even greater understanding of transplant medicine and surgery, refinements in patient care and further improvement in outcomes.
		The Barnes-Jewish Hospital Lung Transplant Program has been at the forefront of these developments and, through its collaboration with Washington University School of Medicine, will continue its contribution to improving lung transplantation.
		In the last year, Washington University transplant specialists performed the 600th lung transplant, making Barnes-Jewish Hospital one of the most active lung transplant centers in the world.
	www.barnesjewish.org /groups?NavID=340 (338 words)

	MedlinePlus: Lung Transplantation
		Lung transplantation is surgery to replace one or both diseased lungs with a healthy lung or lungs from a donor.
		Your doctor may recommend a lung transplant if you have disease that cannot be controlled any other way.
		Complications of lung transplantation include rejection of the transplanted lung and infection.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/lungtransplantation.html (279 words)

	Trafford Publishing: Taking Flight: Inspirational Stories of Lung Transplantation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Lung transplant is a life-changing surgery that extends and enhances life due to organ donation.
		Her lung transplant has allowed her to become involved with many organizations: volunteering as a speaker; writing for various Cystic Fibrosis and lung transplant newsletters; board member; and mentor.
		The courage of our patients is certainly an inspiration to us in the lung transplant field, and should be an inspiration to anyone who chooses to partake of their stories.
	www.trafford.com /robots/02-0497.html (3926 words)

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