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A lung transplant removes a person's diseased lung and replaces it with a healthy one. The healthy lung comes from a donor who has died. Some people get one lung during a transplant. Other people get two.

Lung transplants are used for people who are likely to die from lung disease within 1 to 2 years. Their conditions are so severe that other treatments, such as medicines or breathing devices, no longer work. Lung transplants most often are used to treat people who have severe:

  • COPD
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
  • Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
  • Pulmonary hypertension

Complications of lung transplantation include rejection of the transplanted lung and infection.

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  • Article: Machine Learning for 1-Year Mortality Prediction in Lung Transplant Recipients: ISHLT...
  • Article: Baseline Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Real-World Data for an Emerging Early Posttransplant...
  • Article: A nationwide survey on current practices in anesthesia management for lung...
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