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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:808
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR THOMAS M. EGAN (Chapel Hill, NC): That was a very nice study, and it adds to the body of literature supporting the hypothesis that lungs may be useful for transplantation even at intervals after death. I am a little curious about the group of lungs that were fully deflated. I gather from your manuscript that these lungs were deflated because, as part of the preparation, you opened both pleural spaces. I wonder if another control group might have been useful as well, that is, lungs maintained at functional residual capacity, because a fully deflated lung does not really mimic the clinical scenario of a cadaver unless the body dies of bilateral stab wounds to the chest. Do you think there would have been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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