At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, each potential transplant patient is evaluated individually by a team of experts to ensure the patient is healthy enough to survive transplant and will receive long-term benefits.
Common indications for lung transplant include:
- Emphysema/COPD
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Cystic fibrosis
- Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Primary pulmonary hypertension
- Sarcoidosis
- Bronchiedctasis
- Obliterative bronchiolitis (non retransplant)
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