Pulmonary Arterioplasty With End-to-End Anastomosis of the Lingular Branch to the Interlobar Pulmonary Artery in Living-Donor Lobectomy.

In living-donor lobar lung transplantation, donor lobectomies must be performed carefully both for donors and recipients. In some cases pulmonary arterioplasty is required for preserving branches of pulmonary artery. This report describes a successful case of pulmonary arterioplasty with end-to-end anastomosis of the interlobar artery and the lingular branch in living-donor lobectomy. Because the harvest of autologous pericardium can be avoided both in donor and recipient surgical procedures by using this technique, living-donor lobar lung transplantation can be performed more safely and simply.