Challenges of lung transplantation in India

Lung transplantation (LTx) is the definitive treatment for select progressive end-stage lung disease patients despite being on optimum medical therapy. Asian countries like China, Japan and India have started LTx programmes despite various odds and challenges. Some of these challenges seem to be uni...

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Autores principales: Shah, Unmil B., Kumar, Pradeep, Rahulan, Vijil, Dutta, Prabhat, Attawar, Sandeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Nature Singapore 2021
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33935383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12055-021-01170-9
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author Shah, Unmil B.
Kumar, Pradeep
Rahulan, Vijil
Dutta, Prabhat
Attawar, Sandeep
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description Lung transplantation (LTx) is the definitive treatment for select progressive end-stage lung disease patients despite being on optimum medical therapy. Asian countries like China, Japan and India have started LTx programmes despite various odds and challenges. Some of these challenges seem to be unique to developing countries. We have elaborated the challenges of LTx in India and their proposed solutions and shared our experience in setting up a successful LTx programme.
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spelling pubmed-80648842021-04-26 Challenges of lung transplantation in India Shah, Unmil B. Kumar, Pradeep Rahulan, Vijil Dutta, Prabhat Attawar, Sandeep Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Review Article Lung transplantation (LTx) is the definitive treatment for select progressive end-stage lung disease patients despite being on optimum medical therapy. Asian countries like China, Japan and India have started LTx programmes despite various odds and challenges. Some of these challenges seem to be unique to developing countries. We have elaborated the challenges of LTx in India and their proposed solutions and shared our experience in setting up a successful LTx programme. Springer Nature Singapore 2021-04-24 2022-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8064884/ /pubmed/33935383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12055-021-01170-9 Text en © Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons 2021
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