Surgical Treatment for Empyema after Lung Transplantation / 대한흉부외과학회지

ABSTRACT

Empyema after lung transplantation causes dysfunction of the allograft, and it has the potential to cause mortality and morbidity, but the technical difficulty of surgically treating this empyema makes this type of treatment unfavorable. We report here on two cases of decortication for empyema after lung transplantation.