Pushing the Envelope in Single Lung Transplantation for Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension: Identifying an Upper Limit of Pressures

Purpose Coexisting secondary pulmonary arterial hypertension (SPH: defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) above 25 mmHg) complicates decisions to proceed with single lung transplantation (LTx) while many patients may miss this potential opportunity as the last resort due to unclear upper limit of pulmonary arterial pressure acceptable for single LTx. The purpose of this study is to identify the limit as well as to evaluate the...