It is possible to replace a lung. The affected lung is medically called lung transplantation, which is the only effective way to treat end-stage lung lesions because the patient’s own lung has reached end-stage and the lung’s function cannot guarantee the minimum required respiratory function and must be removed and transplanted to a healthy lung of a person who died from other causes. Lung transplantation includes unilateral lung transplantation, bilateral lung transplantation, and combined heart-lung transplantation. Lung transplantation has high physical requirements for patients, such as age not exceeding sixty years, no other serious systemic diseases except lung disease, not cured or not able to obtain effective remission after maximum efforts of internal medicine, and life expectancy less than two years, therefore lung transplantation is often used for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, primary pulmonary artery High pressure, bronchiectasis, and end-stage nodular disease, silicosis, pulmonary artery embolism, and alveolar protein deposition, while tuberculosis and lung cancer are not indications for lung transplantation.
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