does a successful lung transplant completely eliminate lung problems for cystic fibrosis patients?
March 8th, 2010 | by admin |i have hered that some people have to get one double lung transplant, and years later bet another one. so with new lungs do you still have the defective gene in your lungs?
What people don’t understand is that you don’t have defective lungs, you have defective genes. It affects the entire body, not just the lungs, but it is usually the lungs and the digestive system that see the most effects of the disease. When someone with CF receives a transplant they still have the disease, but hopefully they can keep that set of lungs healthy longer with treatments. For example I didn’t start using pulmozyme till I was 8, so I had 8 years of damage there, and did not start taking inhaled antibiotics until I was 13. So all that damage accumulated. So now if I got a new set of lungs, I could start using those medications right away, and hopefully be able to keep them in good shape, but if the disease is too powerful, then another set of lungs might be needed.
3 Responses to “does a successful lung transplant completely eliminate lung problems for cystic fibrosis patients?”
By Mitchell R on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
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By Alicia on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
CF patients who need lung transplants still have CF in the rest of the body, obviously but the new lungs do not get CF. the new lungs are possibly damaged by germs that had stayed in the upper airways above the new lungs, Also some drugs patients take help the germs by suppressing the immune system. this may be a reason the new lungs do not help the CF patient as long and start to decrease.
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have cf, got a few speeches lol and cff.org just googled it.
By Ride4Life on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
What people don’t understand is that you don’t have defective lungs, you have defective genes. It affects the entire body, not just the lungs, but it is usually the lungs and the digestive system that see the most effects of the disease. When someone with CF receives a transplant they still have the disease, but hopefully they can keep that set of lungs healthy longer with treatments. For example I didn’t start using pulmozyme till I was 8, so I had 8 years of damage there, and did not start taking inhaled antibiotics until I was 13. So all that damage accumulated. So now if I got a new set of lungs, I could start using those medications right away, and hopefully be able to keep them in good shape, but if the disease is too powerful, then another set of lungs might be needed.
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I have CF