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42: Lung Transplantation Available to Purchase
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Published:November 2023
Carol Conrad, MD, "Lung Transplantation", Pediatric Pulmonology, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, Michael J. Light, MD, FAAP, Kristin Van Hook, MD, MPH, FAAP
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The first pediatric lung transplant was performed in 1986. Lung and heart-lung transplants were prominent in the 1980s into the early 1990s, but because of improved surgical techniques, and in the interest of increased organ allocation, they are not as commonly performed in children as in adults. As of 2019, a total of 2,514 pediatric lung and 733 pediatric heart-lung transplants had been reported to the International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry since its inception.1 The registry reports a relatively stable number of pediatric lung transplants between 2010 and 2018 but a decrease in pediatric heart-lung transplants through the same...
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