The first long-term survival results of lung transplantation in Turkey

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Çıtak N, Açıkmeşe B, İşgörücü Ö, Büyükkale S, Sayar A. The first long-term survival results of lung transplantation in Turkey. Turk Gogus Kalp Dama 2021;29(4):586-587 Cite this article as: Lung transplantation (LTx) has become mainstay of therapy for end-stage lung diseases all over the world.[1] According to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) database, 67,072 adult lung and heart-lung transplants performed until 2017 were reported.[2] In Turkey, a heart-lung transplant was performed for the first time in a nine-year-old girl with large vessel transposition and restrictive ventricular septal defect who developed pulmonary hypertension in 1998 at the Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine.[3] The early period LTx results of our LTx center were published by us four years ago.[4] It was the first study to publish the results of patients in our country. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed 31 LTx cases (21 bilateral, eight single-sided, and two re-transplantations) performed in 29 patients (17 males, 12 females; mean age: 41.4±11.7 years; range, 19 to 59 years) at Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital between March 2012 and February 2015. After the early period results, we present our long-term results of patients who underwent LTx.