Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
2010 Feb;43(1):108-112.
Surgical Treatment for Empyema after Lung Transplantation
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- 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yongdong Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea. hcpaik@yuhs.ac
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- Empyema after lung transplantation causes dysfunction of the allograft, and it has the potential to cause mortality and morbidity, but the technical difficulty of surgically treating this empyema makes this type of treatment unfavorable. We report here on two cases of decortication for empyema after lung transplantation.
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