Single centre experience with bronchial healing after lung transplantation: A review of 555 anastomoses

Jeyakanthan, Mylvaganam, Abid, Q., Pillay, Thasee, Clark, Stephen, Dark, John and Schueler, Stephan (2005) Single centre experience with bronchial healing after lung transplantation: A review of 555 anastomoses. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 24 (2). S56-S57. ISSN 1053 2498

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B100 Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Applied Sciences
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	28 Apr 2015 14:02
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 17:30
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/22258

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