Long-term follow-up of living-donor single-lobe lung transplantation for bronchiolitis obliterans in a four-year-old male: improvement of over-sized lung allograft

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2011 Jul;13(1):114-6. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2010.249870. Epub 2011 Mar 8.

Abstract

We report a long-term outcome of extremely oversized lung allograft. A left lower lobe transplantation from an adult donor was performed on a four-year-old recipient after left pneumonectomy. Lobar lung allograft volume was calculated to be approximately 180% of the recipient's predicted left thoracic capacity. Accordingly, the lung allograft was compressed to 47% of its original size immediately after transplantation. Initial postoperative functional recovery of the allograft was excellent despite this severe compression. As the patient grew physically, both his forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV(1)) and his left lung volume increased slowly but steadily during an observation period of two years and four months after transplantation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / surgery*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Forced Expiratory Volume
  • Humans
  • Living Donors*
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / surgery*
  • Lung Transplantation*
  • Lung Volume Measurements
  • Male
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome