TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Bronchial Artery Revascularization A1 - Tong, Michael Zhen-Yu A1 - Johnston, Douglas R. A1 - McCurry, Kenneth R. A1 - Budev, Marie A1 - Pettersson, Gosta B. A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Burt, Bryan M. A2 - Groth, Shawn S. A2 - Loor, Gabriel A2 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann PY - 2020 T2 - Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e AB - The blood supplying the lungs consists predominantly of deoxygenated blood from the pulmonary arterial tree and the much smaller systemic arterial bronchial arteries.1 Although the bronchial arteries are known to bring oxygenated and nutritious blood supply to the bronchial tree, this blood supply is sacrificed during lung transplantation and leads to airway ischemia, which has historically been one of the Achilles heels of lung transplantation. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170413481 ER -