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Patients and Methods
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board. The records of all patients who underwent lung transplantation at the University of California-Los Angeles from January 2000 to March 2010 were reviewed. During this period, 27 patients underwent lung transplantation and coronary revascularization and are the subject of this study.
Perioperative Characteristics of Patients With CAD and the Control Group
During the study period, 27 patients with critical coronary artery lesions and preserved left ventricular function underwent lung transplantation and coronary revascularization, and are therefore the subjects of this study. The perioperative characteristics of this group of patients are shown in Table 1. The waiting time for patients with CAD and the control group was similar. Thirteen of 27 patients were deemed suitable candidates for single lung transplantation and were therefore referred for
Comment
The findings of this study demonstrate that selected patients with CAD can undergo coronary revascularization and lung transplantation with acceptable short-term and medium- term outcomes. Our results are comparable with lung transplant recipients without CAD.
Several reports have examined the role of coronary revascularization in lung transplant recipients with CAD [7, 8, 9, 10]. Snell and colleagues [7] were the first group to report on 5 patients with clinically significant CAD who underwent
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