Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

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First Lung Transplant from Living Donors in Japan

On October 28, the first lung transplant operation was performed for a woman with serious lung disease in Okayama University Hospital, Okayama. The recipient of this operation, a 24-year-old woman, has been suffering from severe bronchiectasis, repeated pneumonia, and chronic respiratory failure since the age of 4. Her general condition had been relatively stable until late September this year, when she was admitted to Shinsyu University Hospital, Nagano, where she was living, due to worsening of the disease. She was then transported by helicopter to Okayama University Hospital whose ethics committee approved the living-donor transplant. In spite of new Japan's Organ Transplant Law, which took effect in October last year, no transplant operation has been performed from brain-dead donors so far. Therefore, since no brain-dead donor was expected in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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