TY - JOUR
T1 - Single centre experience with bronchial healing after lung transplantation: A review of 555 anastomoses
AU - Jeyakanthan, Mylvaganam
AU - Abid, Q.
AU - Pillay, Thasee
AU - Clark, Stephen
AU - Dark, John
AU - Schueler, Stephan
PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - Since the beginning of our transplant programme in 1987 we used various techniques of bronchial anastomosis including continuous and interrupted sutures, in addition a pedicled graft as a bronchial wrap using omentum, pericardium or intercostal muscle. Since the early nineties we adopted a technique that included: i) Short donor bronchus one cartilaginous ring proximal to the upper lobe origin ii) End-to-end anastomosis by continuous suture of membranous bronchus and interrupted figure-of-eight suture of the cartilaginous bronchus using non absorbable sutures avoiding telescoping iii) Apposition of peribronchial tissue over the anastomoses.
AB - Since the beginning of our transplant programme in 1987 we used various techniques of bronchial anastomosis including continuous and interrupted sutures, in addition a pedicled graft as a bronchial wrap using omentum, pericardium or intercostal muscle. Since the early nineties we adopted a technique that included: i) Short donor bronchus one cartilaginous ring proximal to the upper lobe origin ii) End-to-end anastomosis by continuous suture of membranous bronchus and interrupted figure-of-eight suture of the cartilaginous bronchus using non absorbable sutures avoiding telescoping iii) Apposition of peribronchial tissue over the anastomoses.
U2 - 10.1016/j.healun.2004.11.069
DO - 10.1016/j.healun.2004.11.069
M3 - Article
SN - 1053-2498
SN - 1557-3117
VL - 24
SP - S56-S57
JO - The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
JF - The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
IS - 2
ER -