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Heart-lung transplantation for primary pulmonary hypertension.

BACKGROUND: The operation of choice for primary pulmonary hypertension remains controversial, as heart-lung transplantation, single-lung transplantation, and double-lung transplantation have all been advocated. METHODS: We reviewed our institution's experience with heart-lung transplantation for primary pulmonary hypertension. RESULTS: Thirty-nine patients had heart-lung transplantation for primary pulmonary hypertension. Operative mortality rate was 18%, and actuarial survival was 72% at 1 year, 67% at 2 years, and 42% at 5 years. Freedom from obliterative bronchiolitis was 91% at 1 year, 83% at 2 years, and 70% at 5 years. Freedom from obliterative bronchiolitis-related death was 100% at 1 year, 90% at 2 years, and 87% at 5 years. Freedom from accelerated graft coronary disease was 92% at 5 years. The most frequent causes of death were infection, obliterative bronchiolitis, and accelerated graft coronary disease. CONCLUSIONS: Heart-lung transplantation results in survival comparable to that reported for single or double lung transplantation. Obliterative bronchiolitis is a significant cause of late death but seems to occur less frequently with heart-lung transplantation than with lung transplantation alone. Accelerated coronary graft disease is rare in the first 5 years after transplantation.[1]

References

  1. Heart-lung transplantation for primary pulmonary hypertension. Whyte, R.I., Robbins, R.C., Altinger, J., Barlow, C.W., Doyle, R., Theodore, J., Reitz, B.A. Ann. Thorac. Surg. (1999) [Pubmed]
 
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