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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:337
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 108 Burnett-Womack Bldg, CB 7065, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7065

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See also page 331.

This lucid report by Van Raemdonck and colleagues documents results of (failed) attempts to come up with a method to cool lungs via the airway after circulatory arrest but before explantation. The rationale for pursuing this line of investigation is to minimize the deleterious effects of an obligatory period of warm in situ ischemia in the clinical scenario of lung retrieval for transplantation from cadavers at intervals after death. For several years, my colleagues and I have been investigating cadaver lung retrieval to provide more lungs for transplantation. Although we have focused on other issues in published reports, we, too, have been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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