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Heart and lung transplantation

Harefield Hospital, Harefield, Middx UB9 6JH, UK

• Heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantation is performed for end-stage congenital or acquired disease in children and adults.
  
• The major short- and long-term complications are infection and rejection.
  
• CT imaging plays a major role contributing to the diagnosis of many early and late complications.
  
• Plain chest films still provide a contributory role in continued surveillance.
  
• All grades of rejection in both heart and lung transplants require biopsy for tissue diagnosis, irrespective of imaging findings.