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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:2002-2003
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Ave S, LHRB 780, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007

(Email: david.mcgiffin@ccc.uab.edu).

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The evaluation of donor lungs remains an inexact science. It is known, for example, that there is a lack of correlation between arterial pO₂ and pulmonary venous pO₂ [1, 2]. For this reason, it is not surprising that some studies [3, 4] have failed to find a consistent relationship between an arterial pO₂ less than 300 mm Hg (used as a criterion for a "marginal" donor lung [3]) and primary graft failure, given the effects . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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