Heart-lung transplantation in India: initial experience.

Heart–lung transplantation has come of age and is offered to patients with end-stage cardiopulmonary disorders. Single-lung transplantation and bilateral sequential lung transplantation are being performed more often in patients with isolated end-stage lung disorders to maximize the use of donor organs. However, heart–lung transplantation has its own advantages, such as the removal of all the diseased tissues, absence of ventilation/ perfusion imbalance, and avoidance of crosscontamination from a remaining contralateral lung. We present a brief case history and management of the three heart–lung transplantations performed at our institute.