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Long-Term Successful Outcomes From Kidney Transplantation After Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation

Monday, March 2, 2015

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(14)02140-7/abstract

Author(s)

Shinji Otani, Bronwyn J. Levvey, Glen P. Westall, Miranda Paraskeva, Helen Whitford, Trevor Williams, David C. McGiffin, Rowan Walker, Solomon Menahem, Gregory I. Snell

This study evaluated outcomes of synchronous or delayed kidney Tx in patients with lung or heart-lung transplant. Delayed living-donor kidney Tx was associated with favorable outcomes. Synchronous cadaver kidney transplant at the time of heart-lung or lung transplant was clinically challenging.