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• Blood typing; the recipient’s blood type must in shape the donor’s, because of antigens which can be present on donated lungs. A mismatch of blood type can cause a sturdy response by the immune device and next rejection of the transplanted organs

• Tissue typing; ideally, the lung tissue would additionally match as carefully as feasible among the donor and the recipient, however the choice to discover a exceptionally well suited donor organ have to be balanced in opposition to the affected person’s immediacy of want

• Chest X-ray – PA & LAT, to affirm the scale of the lungs and the chest hollow space

• Pulmonary feature exams

• CT Scan (High Resolution Thoracic & Abdominal)

• Bone mineral density experiment

• MUGA (Gated cardiac blood pool scan)

• Cardiac pressure test (Dobutamine/Thallium experiment)

• Ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) scan

• Electrocardiogram

• Cardiac catheterization

• Echocardiogram