Case Report: Delayed Lung Transplantation With Intraoperative ECMO Support for Herbicide Intoxication-Related Irreversible Pulmonary Fibrosis: Strategy and Outcome.

ABSTRACT: Background: Lung transplantation is recognized as the only therapeutic option for patients who develop irreversible pulmonary fibrosis after herbicide intoxication. Methods: We have collected and presented clinical course and outcome of four patients who received lung transplantation due to paraquat and diquat intoxication from 2018 to 2021. Another patient who received initial lung transplantation due to paraquat intoxication and re-transplantation due to chronic lung allograft dysfunction in 2019, was further reported. Patients were admitted in lung transplantation centers, including the 1st affiliated hospital of Zhengzhou University and Wuxi Lung transplantation center. Previous reported cases from Europe, Canada and China were also summarized as benchmark. Results: During the period f

SUBMITTER: Jiao G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8660696 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature