Between February 1988 and December 1989, 15 combined heart-lung, 2 double lung and 5 single lung transplants were performed at our institution for end stage lung disease. The indication for heart-lung...
An antiserum raised in rabbits against a lung tumor cell line (2563) was selected from a library of antisera against normal and malignant human lung, lung tumor cell lines, and fetal tissues and was f...
OBJECTIVE: To review the 13-year clinical experience of a single center's adult lung transplantation program. METHODS: From January 1992 to December 2003, 369 lung transplantations were performed on 3...
We prospectively studied patients with lung carcinoma and borderline lung functions (forced expired volume [FEV1] of less than 1500 ml or a dyspnoea score of 2 [7] at presentation), who were treated w...
The alveolar permeability (AP) in 21 patients with active diffuse infiltrative lung disease (ILD) was measured by 99Tcm-diethylenetriaminapentaacetate (DTPA) radioaerosol inhalation lung scintigraphy....
To investigate whether survivors of heart/lung and double-lung transplantations have normal or increased nonspecific bronchial responsiveness, nine heart/lung and four double-lung transplant recipient...
Lung is one of the organs of the rat with a particular abundance of haemagglutinating activity that is inhibited by beta-galactosides. This lectin activity can be attributed to a single protein that h...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the acute effect of a lung recruitment maneuver (LRM) on lung morphology in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). PATIENTS: Ten pati...