Anesthesia management in a patient with lung transplantation – a case report and literature review
Autori:
Anita Visković, Renata Curić Radivojević, Slobodan Mihaljević, Krešimir Gršić
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Summary
Lung transplantation is a life saving option for patients with end-stage respiratory failure caused by chronic obstructive disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and cystic fibrosis as the main cause. The survival after lung transplantation has increased, as well as increase in nontransplant surgery for different conditions, intraabdominal conditions being most common. Anesthesia in these patients can be performed successfully with some specificity, considering medical state of a patient, knowing the side effects of immunosuppressive therapy on other organs, and physiology and pathophysiology of a double transplanted lungs. We described a patient with a double lung transplantation (DLT), and anesthesia management during his nasal surgery with the aim of familiarizing
anesthesia procedures in this vulnerable group of patients.