First performed in 1963, lung transplantation is approaching the half-century mark. With
more than 32,000 procedures having been performed worldwide, lung transplantation has …

Objective Although living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT) enables an intermediate
survival similar to cadaveric lung transplantation, the long-term outcome remains unknown …

Living lobar lung transplantation was developed as a procedure for adult and pediatric
patients considered too ill to await cadaveric transplantation. One hundred thirty-eight living …

OBJECTIVE: The impact of size matching between donor and recipient is unclear in lung
transplantation. Therefore, we determined the relation of donor lung size to 1) posttransplant …

Lobar lung transplantation is used mainly for urgent small recipients who are less likely to
obtain size matched lungs in due time. Only limited numbers have been published, and we …

BACKGROUND: The use of lobar transplantation and other size reduction techniques has
allowed larger donor lungs to be utilized for smaller recipients who tend to have longer …

Purpose The differences in chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) between living-donor
lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT) and cadaveric lung transplantation (CLT) remain unclear …

BACKGROUND: Cadaveric lobar lung transplantation (CLLTx) represents a potential
opportunity to address the bias against smaller recipients, especially children, on transplant …

A 15‐year‐old boy with bronchiolitis obliterans after bone marrow transplantation
successfully underwent bilateral living‐donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT) with …

BACKGROUND: As an alternative to cadaveric transplantation, living donor lobar lung
transplantation (LDLLT) has been applied in critical patients with end-stage pulmonary …