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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;59:28-32
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Compensatory Growth of Porcine Right Lungs After Chronic Rejection of Transplanted Left Lungs

Scott E. Langenburg, MD, Lorne H. Blackbourne, MD, Scott A. Buchanan, MD, Michael C. Mauney, MD, Stephen S. Kim, BA, Kimberly N. Sinclair, MS, John A. Kern, MD, Sandeep S. Teja, BA, Curtis G. Tribble, MD, Irving L. Kron, MD

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

Neonatal lung hypoplasia is frequently a fatal condition often associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Unilateral lung transplantation rarely has been performed for this indication, although it is a potential solution. It is not known whether the transplant needs to function permanently or to act as a bridge until the native lung develops. It is also not known whether the native lung will grow in the face of an immunosuppressed state and chronic rejection of the transplanted lung. We therefore developed a porcine model of left lung rejection to study this. Infant swine underwent left lung transplantation. Chronic rejection occurred in all, resulting in nonfunction of the transplanted lung. The right lungs of these animals were compared with the right lungs of size-matched and age-matched control animals not given immunosuppressive treatment and not undergoing transplantation. There were no differences in terms of the functional residual capacity, airway compliance, and airway resistance among the groups. There was a significant increase in the pulmonary vascular resistance in the animals with transplanted lungs. There was also a significant increase in the lung weight in these animals. Unilateral pneumonectomies were done in 4 infant pigs to serve as controls. Three of the 4 did not survive the operation because of acute pulmonary failure. In conclusion, the study group exhibited evidence of compensatory growth that was not seen in the control animals, as shown by the increase in lung weight. This suggests that contralateral lung growth occurs in a growing animal, despite the effects of immunosuppression therapy and chronic rejection of the transplanted lung.




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