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A Matched Survival Analysis of Lung Transplant Recipients with Covid-19 Related Respiratory Failure

Friday, October 21, 2022

Submitted by

Cameron Lind

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003497522013145

Author(s)

Kyle Freischlag, Thomas J. Lynch, Vitaly Levlev, Caitlyn Gries, John C. Keech, Evgeny V. Arshava , Tahuanty Pena, Julia A. Klesney-Tait, Kalpaj R. Parekh

Lung transplant is a potentially life-saving option for patients with Covid-19-induced acute respiratory distress and pulmonary fibrosis. This study set out to determine whether Covid-19 lung transplant patients had comparable outcomes to other lung transplant recipients with similar lung function. The results from this study, pulled from a database of 37,333 lung transplant patients of all causes and 334 from Covid-related causes, showed minimal difference in six-month survival rates.