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Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation

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Each year thousands of patients die of incurable cardiopulmonary diseases. Despite major advances in medical and surgical therapy for some of these problems, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, advanced diseases of the pulmonary circulation including primary pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary hypertension secondary to congenital heart disease (Eisenmenger’s syndrome) still elude effective conventional therapy. These entities are progressive and often result in the death of the affected individual. Routine medical interventions are only partly effective in ameliorating some of the symptoms suffered by these patients. Since 1980 the real possibility of therapeutic lung and heart-lung transplantation has been recognized. There have been dramatic clinical successes with lung transplantation, particularly for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis,1 and with cardiopulmonary transplantation for those individuals afflicted by end-stage pulmonary vascular disease (either due to primary pulmonary hypertension or Eisenmenger’s syndrome).2

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  1. Stephan L. Kamholz MD
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pulmonary Lab, Flushing Medical Center, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  3. Pulmonary division, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  4. State of New York and Consolidated Edison Corporation, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  5. Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, 4500 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing, NY, 11355, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  6. Department of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Roger C. Bone MD, FACP, FCCP (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman) (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman)

  7. Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  8. Pace University, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  9. 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, 11435, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

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Kamholz, S.L., Veith, F.J. (1989). Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation. In: Vevaina, J.R., Bone, R.C., Kassoff, E. (eds) Legal Aspects of Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4534-6_26

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