Twelve-year survival of the first living-donor pediatric lung transplantation in Brazil.

Objective: To report the long-term follow-up of the first living-donor lobar lung transplantation performed in Latin America.

Description: The patient was a 12-year-old boy with post-infectious obliterative bronchiolitis with end-stage pulmonary disease. He was on continuous oxygen support, presenting with dyspnea even during minimal activity.

Intraoperative removal of a knotted Swan-Ganz catheter during lung transplantation.

We describe the case of a 52-year-old man with end-stage emphysema who underwent a right-sided lung transplantation. During preoperative monitoring an apparently non-functioning Swan-Ganz catheter could not be removed through the insertion site - right internal jugular vein. Another Swan-Ganz catheter was successfully installed through the left internal jugular vein, pulmonary artery pressures could be recorded and the transplant was performed uneventfully.