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Successful bilateral lung transplantation for pulmonary fibrosis associated with the Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2005 October
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a genetic disorder characterized by oculocutaneous albinism, a bleeding diathesis, and in a subset of patients, pulmonary fibrosis. Lung transplantation, the only curative therapy for pulmonary fibrosis, has not been previously reported as a successful treatment strategy for patients with HPS because the bleeding diathesis was thought to contraindicate major thoracic surgery. We successfully performed bilateral sequential lung transplantation in a patient with pulmonary fibrosis and HPS after transfusion of 6 units of platelets. Lung transplantation is a viable therapeutic option in patients with pulmonary fibrosis and only a mild bleeding diathesis associated with HPS.
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