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Lung transplantation / mycobacteria

Question
My niece has CF, now the mycobacterium has been found ... according to the physicians she will get a lung transplantation...however the hospital is refusing to do it because of the mycobakterium.
My question,
which hospital would take a CF patient with mycobakteria and also do the operation?
It comes out to be difficult and I find it personally evil that everybody refuses to do it....
Best regards,
Answer
Dear questioner,
we have given your question to Prof. Dr. med. Jens Gottlieb from the Medical School Hannover/Germany and got the following answer:
"Patients with an active tuberculosis (caused by mycobakterium tuberkulosis) are no candidates for a lung transplantation.
Lung patients infected with non-tuberculous mycobakteria, are not in general excluded from transplantation. In case of single strains (M. abscessus) however, special precautions are necessary and there is a high risk of post-operative soft-tissue infections. "
[End of the mail of Prof. Gottlieb]
Best regards,
Annette Pfalz for ECORN-CF
17.07.2017