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The British Transplantation Society states that previous chest surgery in a donor constitutes a contraindication to lung retrieval. In this report, we describe a case of successful bilateral lung harvest from a donor who had previously undergone aortic valve replacement. This case highlights that isolated valve surgery can be an addition to the extended donor criteria for lung retrieval and therefore increase the number of organs available for transplantation.

The authors report a case of a fifty-three-year-old man with isolated interruption of aortic arch without associated congenital anomalies. The anomaly was corrected with a 12 mm Dacron prosthetic graft from the subclavian artery to the distal segment of the descending aorta.