Twenty-Five Years of Lung Transplantation in Medell ín: Overcoming the Challenges of an Emerging Country

The first successful lung transplant in Colombia was performed on October 28, 1997 in Medell ín by Alberto Villegas Hernández at the “Clínica Cardiovascular Santa María” today called the Cardio VID Clinic. Here we present both survival outcomes and characteristics of the oldest and most experienced lung transplant program in Colombia. We conducted a retrospective study of all patien ts taken to lung transplantation at the Cardio VID Clinic in Medellín, Colombia from October 1997 to October 2022. Patient information from our institutional database and transplant archives were retrieved and reviewed.
Source: Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: THORACIC – Original Submission Source Type: research