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Need expert advice. after someone has a pneumonectomy what happens next? what's recovery like?

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Depends: depends on how good your other lung is. One would expect to have less exercise capacity but how much you notice this depends on how your lung function was generally pre-op and by how active you are. Someone who is sedentary may not even miss the lost capacity for example.

Answered 3/6/2015

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