Patients considering lung transplant MUST be off cigarettes completely for at least one year before an evaluation for transplant will be scheduled. Patients with COPD usually receive a double lung transplant, although a single lung transplant occasionally may be considered. Restrictive Lung Diseases. Pulmonary Fibrosis and Sarcoidosis
The Ionic column is always more slender than the Doric: Ionic columns are eight and nine column-diameters tall, and even more in the Antebellum colonnades of late American Greek revival plantation houses.
Athens in the 4th to 5th century BCE had an extraordinary system of government, whereby all male citizens had equal political rights, freedom of speech, and the opportunity to participate directly in the political arena. This system was democracy. Further, not only did citizens participate in a direct democracy whereby they themselves made the decisions by which they lived, but they also actively served in the institutions that governed them, and so they directly controlled all parts of the political process.