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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:737-738
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Lung transplantation in a patient with Mounier-Kuhn syndrome

^a Departments of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
^b Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

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To the Editor:

We previously reported the first case of successful lung transplantation in a patient with Mounier-Kuhn syndrome.¹ The patient was a 59-year-old woman with a history of bronchiectasis of unknown etiology since childhood. The patient developed very severe obstructive lung disease and multiple episodes of pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa that necessitated hospitalization. Computed chest tomography and bronchoscopy were diagnostic of Mounier-Kuhn syndrome. The patient underwent bilateral lung transplantation, and the degree of bronchomegaly was not as pronounced as the tracheomegaly and posed little difficulty during transplantation. The patient had a difficult . . . [Full Text of this Article]