Innovative surgical technique of right upper bilobe transplantation

Thoracic surgeons involved in lung transplantation are faced with the problems of scarcity of available donors and size mismatch between the donor lung and the recipient thoracic cage. Different size-reduction techniques or resection of localized pathology limited to 1 lobe allows tailoring of the grafted lung to the size of the thoracic cage and increasing the donor pool.1 We present an innovative technique of size reduction by a right lower lobectomy with the creation of a single bronchial stump for anastomosis