ArticleSurgery today2018
Gastrointestinal complications after lung transplantation in Japanese patients.
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- Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of gastric per-oral endoscopic myotomy (GPOEM) in lung transplant patients with refractory gastroparesis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Pooled it
- Gastroparesis following anatomical resection for lung cancer: clinical characteristics and implications.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2026Article
- Considerations and Indications for Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy in Lung Transplant Patients.Asia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology · 2025Article
- Foregut Dysmotility in the Lung Transplant Patient.Current gastroenterology reports · 2021Review
- Factors affecting complications development and mortality after single lung transplant.World journal of transplantation · 2021Review
- Diameter of the dilated main pulmonary artery in patients with pulmonary hypertension decreases after lung transplantation.Surgery today · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeGastrointestinal complications after lung transplantation (LTx) are an important postoperative morbidity associated with malnutrition and the malabsorption of drugs. We reviewed our experience of managing gastrointestinal complications after LTx.
methodsBetween June, 2008 and April, 2017, 160 lung transplants were performed at our institution, as living-donor lobar lung transplants in 77 patients, and as deceased-donor lung transplants in 83. We reviewed, retrospectively, the incidence, type and management of gastrointestinal complications.
resultsAmong the 160 LTx recipients, 58 (36.3%) suffered a collective 70 gastrointestinal complications, the most frequent being gastroparesis, followed by gastroesophageal reflux disease. Two complications were managed surgically, by Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease in one recipient and Hartmann's operation for sigmoid colon perforation in one. The other 68 complications were managed medically. Two patients died of complications: one, of aspiration pneumonia caused by gastroparesis; and one, of panperitonitis caused by a gastric ulcer. There were no significant differences in overall survival or chronic lung allograft dysfunction-free survival between the patients with and those without gastrointestinal complications.
conclusionsGastrointestinal complications are not uncommon in LTx recipients and may be serious; therefore, early detection and appropriate treatment are imperative. Surgical management is required for some complications, but most can be managed medically.
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