Recovery of protein-losing enteropathy after living-donor lobar lung transplantation in primary pulmonary hypertension

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2006 Apr;25(4):486-8. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.08.016. Epub 2006 Feb 28.

Abstract

The patient investigated was a 43-year-old woman with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and refractory protein-losing enteropathy (PLE). She underwent living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT), which led to remarkable improvement in both pulmonary hypertension and PLE. Although there have been no reports, to our knowledge, that have demonstrated PLE as a complication of PPH, the present case clearly shows how PLE could complicate PPH. In addition, and more importantly, hypo-proteinemia due to PLE should not necessarily be an exclusion criterion for lung transplantation when PPH is involved, because it could markedly improve after transplantation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / complications
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / surgery*
  • Living Donors*
  • Lung Transplantation*
  • Protein-Losing Enteropathies / etiology
  • Protein-Losing Enteropathies / surgery*
  • Recovery of Function