Guest: Philip J. Spencer, MD and Richard C. Daly, MD
Host: Kyle Klarich, MD
Overview:
Heart lung transplantation is the transplant of the mixed heart-lung organ bloc from a donor right into a recipient who has end-stage illness of each the guts and the lungs. This is usually mandatory as a result of the illness in 1 of the organs (the guts or the lungs) prompted the illness within the different organ system. For instance, pulmonary hypertension may trigger gradual however irreversible proper ventricular failure within the coronary heart. The prognosis after heart-lung transplantation is much like sufferers who obtain remoted lung transplantation.
Questions:
1. Can you describe heart-lung transplantation and why it’s distinctive (tracheal anastomosis, coronary heart and lungs transplanted as a block)
2. Why is that this operation unusual?
3. What sorts of illness is would require heart-lung transplantation?
4. Is the prognosis after heart-lung transplantation extra much like coronary heart transplant or lung transplant survival?
5. Are their immunologic benefits to en bloc heart-lung transplantation?
