Webinar featuring Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Dr. George M. Patricia

“Often patients as well as doctors want to escape lung transplantation, which is an extreme point in the treatment. However sometimes it is necessary to look at this issue from another angle. From the moment therapy is no longer effective, transplantation is an opportunity to prolong life, to change its quality and get time to stay as long as it’s possible with their loved ones.

You can feel the fear and reluctance to discuss the topic of transplantation, even if the disease progresses, but my advice is to get together with your family or friends, with the people, who as you expect will support you, and then, without wasting time, consult the doctor. Remember, don’t wait until the last moment, when medications won’t help, it’s better to have stock.

Even if now such procedure may seem hopeless or terrible, in the future transplantation can really provide the best quality and duration of life. So my advice is you need to gather around your close ones, and face the problem.

We have people, who can help you to get rid of fear, and we are ready to give moral support everyone, who decided to get transplantation. “

M. George Petty, MD, University of Pittsburgh / UPMC