Unilateral lung transplantation--a new perspective in the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis
Schäfers, H.J.; Haverich, A.; Wagner, T.O.; Höper, M.M.; Wahlers, T.; Heublein, B.; Fabel, H.; Borst, H.G.
Pneumologie 44(8): 943-949
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0934-8387 PMID: 2217089 Document Number: 354820
In patients with pulmonary fibrosis and progressive respiratory failure despite conservative treatment, unilateral lung transplantation offers a new therapeutic alternative. At the Medical School in Hannover, five patients--the first to be thus treated in Central Europe--with terminal pulmonary fibrosis of the lung have so far been successfully treated with unilateral lung transplantation. All five patients are still alive, and all experienced a marked improvement in their pulmonary function parameters, such that they have been enabled to lead a normal life again.