HEART LUNG TRANSPLANT

NORMAL ANATOMY

The heart and lungs are located in the thoracic cavity, or chest cavity. The heart pumps blood from the body to the lungs, where the blood is oxygenated by lungs. It then returns the blood to the heart, which pumps the freshly oxygenated blood to the rest part of the body.

INDICATION

those person who has both cardiac or lungs disease who can be transplant their lung and heart.its transplantation known by heart lung transplantation. The most common reasons for a combined heart-lung transplant are pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis, lung disease associated with damage to the right ventricle of the heart, and various congenital defects of the heart and lungs.

PROCEDURE

Heart-lung transplant operations have been performed since 1980 in the United States. The donated heart and lungs come from a human who has been declared brain-dead but remains on a life-support machine. A single recipient may receive one or both donor lungs. The tissues must be a match to help ensure that the patient does not reject the transplanted tissue. While the patient is deep asleep and pain-free, an incision is made through the breast bone (sternum). Tubes are used to re-route the blood to a heart-lung bypass machine that keeps the blood oxygenated and circulating during the surgery.