Sign up with Facebook
- Health A to Z
- Healthy Living
Advertisement
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Learning Center
Treatments could include:
-
Bronchoalveolar Lavage
- Lung Transplant
-
Treatment of Underlying Disorders
 |
Treatment consists of periodically washing out the protein substance from the lung (whole-lung lavage). A lung transplant may be recommended for certain patients with this disease.
|
|
Treatment consists of periodic whole-lung lavage, a washing out of the phospholipids from the lung with a special tube placed in the trachea. This is performed under general anesthesia.
|
 |
Lung transplantation involves removal of one or both diseased lungs from a patient and the replacement National Transplant Waiting List By Organ Type (June 2000) Organ Needed Number Waiting Kidney 48,349 Liver 15,987 Heart 4,139 Lung 3,695 Kidney-...
|
|
Lung transplant is surgery to replace one or both diseased lungs with healthy lungs from a human donor.
|
|
Lung transplantation involves removal of one or both diseased lungs from a patient and the replacement of the lungs with healthy organs from a donor. Lung transplantation may refer to single, double, or even heart-lung transplantation .
|
