ELECTRON FLOW SCAN AND THORACIC TRANSPLAN TATION

To follow an heart transplantation, EBCT is more precise than ultrason ographie and scintigraphy to calculate a stroke volume. In lung transp lantation, it is important before surgery to know the value of right v entricule stroke volume in order to choice the surgical protocol. Afte r lung transplantation SFE helps to follow the patient to look after c omplications, to drain a collection or to guide a biopsy. SFE contribu tion is discussed in rejection, infectious diseases, detection of immu ne-induced carcinomas, in bronchiolitis obliterans and recurrence of t he primitive disease.