Why wouldn’t a lung transplant cure/get rid of asthma?
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Succinct answer copied from an outside source: Asthma as defined is an obstructive disease due to bronchospasms of parts that are not necessarily the lungs. If a lung transplant occured, they would’nt replace the bronchial tree / trachea along with it where most of asthma spasms take place. It is not a COPD obstructive disease like Emphysema (which occur within the lung structures itself, and if severe enough to the point of life ending causes, can be cured with lung transplants (but that’s rarely done because it never gets to that point with proper medicinal management)
Also, lung transplant recipients typically only have a 5-10 year survival rate, and run the risk of rejection in that time. With risks like that, lung transplants are only reserved for people with conditions that will cause them to die soon without them. Asthma is very very rarely ever that severe.
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