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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 56, 1381-1385, Copyright © 1993 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Heart and lung grafts harvested en bloc: operative technique, utilization, and results

TJ Hinkamp, A Montoya, M Bakhos, HJ Sullivan, BP Blakeman, DB Calandra, JP Houck, W Gunnar, M Stout and K Siebold
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois 60153.

Combined heart and lung transplantation has been shown to provide successful therapy for patients with end-stage heart and lung disease. The improved success of lung transplantation has resulted in increasing number of potential recipients and longer waiting times. Maximal utilization of all three thoracic organs is no longer a casual goal but of utmost necessity. We devised a new technique that improves operative visualization, decreases dissection time, and ensures excellent preservation of all three thoracic organs. Bench dissection after extraction of this heart-lung block allows the thoracic and cardiac surgeons to agree on precise dissection of the left atrium and adequate pulmonary venous and atrial cuff. This technique has been used in 48 of our last 50 harvests with excellent results. Utilization of heart and lungs has been 93% and 74%, respectively.




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