TY - JOUR
T1 - Kissing-stents technique after living-donor lobar lung transplantation
AU - Sugimoto, Seiichiro
AU - Oto, Takahiro
AU - Toyooka, Shinichi
AU - Miyoshi, Shinichiro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - Stent placement has become common practice for bronchial stenosis (BS) after lung transplantation (LT). Especially, segmental BS after lobar LT requires a complex stenting technique. We describe a case of multiple segmental bronchial stenoses treated by the kissing-stents technique using balloon-expandable metallic stents after living-donor lobar LT. Based on the vascular kissing-stents technique, we simultaneously placed two stents, side by side, in the superior segmental bronchus and the basal segmental bronchus of the right transplanted lobar lung. This technique may represent a valuable option for complex segmental BS after lobar LT.
AB - Stent placement has become common practice for bronchial stenosis (BS) after lung transplantation (LT). Especially, segmental BS after lobar LT requires a complex stenting technique. We describe a case of multiple segmental bronchial stenoses treated by the kissing-stents technique using balloon-expandable metallic stents after living-donor lobar LT. Based on the vascular kissing-stents technique, we simultaneously placed two stents, side by side, in the superior segmental bronchus and the basal segmental bronchus of the right transplanted lobar lung. This technique may represent a valuable option for complex segmental BS after lobar LT.
KW - Bronchial stenosis
KW - Bronchial stents
KW - Bronchoscopy
KW - Lung transplantation
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U2 - 10.1093/ejcts/ezu314
DO - 10.1093/ejcts/ezu314
M3 - Article
C2 - 25147353
AN - SCOPUS:84930438785
VL - 47
SP - 1105
EP - 1106
JO - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
JF - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
SN - 1010-7940
IS - 6
ER -