This study explores how disparities between actual and predicted total lung capacity (TLC) in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) affect lung function parameters and long-term outcomes after lung transplantation. A total of 170 ILD patients who underwent lung transplantation between 2011 and 2022 were included.
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Lung Transplant
February 13, 2025
January 30, 2025
This study evaluated outcomes in lung transplantation (LTx) using lungs from donation after brain death (DBD) vs. donation after circulatory death (DCD). After analyzing 21 studies with more than 60,000 patients, researchers found that early mortality was slightly higher in the DCD group (5.5 percent vs. 4.5 percent for DBD).
January 9, 2025
This study investigates lung transplant outcomes across age groups, highlighting key survival trends and risk factors. Among the 33,644 recipients, older patients (aged 65–79 years) more frequently underwent single lung transplantation.
December 27, 2024
The article evaluates the outcomes of a paradigm shift in lung transplantation. Traditionally, the lung with the lowest perfusion was implanted first to minimize intraoperative hemodynamic instability.
November 6, 2024
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Shaf Keshavjee about his keynote speech at ESTS.
August 29, 2024
Lung transplantation is limited by the availability of donors, with relative scarcity of organs. Aspiration prior to donation is one reason donor organs might be discarded due to concern for acute lung injury, which adversely impacts graft survival.
August 22, 2024
Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) is associated with significant morbidity after lung transplantation, however, at the time of diagnosis of CLAD, the disease process has usually adversely impacted graft function.
August 12, 2024
This video discusses the indications for lung autotransplantation and demonstrates the technical steps.
April 25, 2024
The authors discuss the challenges of creating a successful transplant system in Colombia, where surgeons tackle socioeconomic and technological hurdles with creative solutions.
October 20, 2023
The authors performed a structured review of the evidence surrounding the effect of donor age in lung transplantation. They examined whether or not lungs from donors over sixty years old had equivalent outcomes to lungs from younger donors. Twelve articles supplied the best evidence to answer this question.