Therapeutic ranges in anticoagulant administration.

Abstract

tation, where there is only one long term survivor (J Cooper, personal communication). The main advantage of the com- bined operation is that all diseased tissue is removed and so recurrent infection and an imbalance of ventilation and perfusion from the remaining lung are avoided. In addition, coronary bronchial vascular collaterals, shown at coronary arteriography in these patients, may aid healing of the .trachea. Thus no early or late complications have occurred as a result of problems with the tracheal anastomosis after heart and lung transplantation in the Stanford series, which is in sharp contrast to the experience after isolated lung trans- plantation.4