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A lung transplant removes a person's diseased lung and replaces it with a healthy one. The healthy lung comes from a donor who has died. Some people get one lung during a transplant. Other people get two.

Lung transplants are used for people who are likely to die from lung disease within 1 to 2 years. Their conditions are so severe that other treatments, such as medicines or breathing devices, no longer work. Lung transplants most often are used to treat people who have severe:

• COPD
• Cystic fibrosis
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
• Pulmonary hypertension

Complications of lung transplantation include rejection of the transplanted lung and infection.

NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

• Preventing Rejection (United Network for Organ Sharing)

• Lung Disease Treatments (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

• Diet and Exercise (United Network for Organ Sharing)

• The SRTR/OPTN Annual Data Report (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients)

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Lung Transplantation (National Institutes of Health)

• How the Lungs Work (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) Also in Spanish

• Lung transplant (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish