loading...| Preferred Name |
Lung Transplantation |
| Definitions |
<p>A lung transplant removes a person's diseased lung and replaces it with a healthy one. The healthy lung comes from a donor who has died. Some people get one lung during a transplant. Other people get two.</p> <p>Lung transplants are used for people who are likely to die from lung disease within 1 to 2 years. Their conditions are so severe that other treatments, such as medicines or breathing devices, no longer work. Lung transplants most often are used to treat people who have severe:</p><ul> <li><a href="https://medlineplus.gov/copd.html">COPD </a></li> <li><a href="https://medlineplus.gov/cysticfibrosis.html">Cystic fibrosis</a></li> <li>Idiopathic <a href="https://medlineplus.gov/pulmonaryfibrosis.html">pulmonary fibrosis</a></li> <li><a href="https://medlineplus.gov/alpha1antitrypsindeficiency.html">Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency</a></li> <li><a href="https://medlineplus.gov/pulmonaryhypertension.html">Pulmonary hypertension</a> </li> </ul> <p>Complications of lung transplantation include rejection of the transplanted lung and infection. </p> <p class="">NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute</p> |
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0024128 |
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C0024128 |
| Date created |
10/28/1999 |
| definition |
A lung transplant removes a person's diseased lung and replaces it with a healthy one. The healthy lung comes from a donor who has died. Some people get one lung during a transplant. Other people get two. Lung transplants are used for people who are likely to die from lung disease within 1 to 2 years. Their conditions are so severe that other treatments, such as medicines or breathing devices, no longer work. Lung transplants most often are used to treat people who have severe:
Complications of lung transplantation include rejection of the transplanted lung and infection. NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
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| MP OTHER LANGUAGE URL |
Spanish https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/lungtransplantation.html |
| MP PRIMARY INSTITUTE URL |
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/ |
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C0024128 |
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Lung Transplantation |
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0029216 |
| Scope Statement |
A lung transplant removes a diseased lung and replaces it with a healthy one. Discover what to expect before, after, and during a lung transplant. https://medlineplus.gov/lungtransplantation.html |
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T061 |
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