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.
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Lung Transplant
January 9, 2025
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.
October 12, 2023
Lung transplantation remains the best option for patients with end-stage lung disease. Despite improving outcomes, the procedure confers significant morbidity risk. This paper presents a single right-sided lung transplant in a sixty-nine-year-old recipient utilizing the Da Vinci robotic system.
July 20, 2023
This study aimed to determine if socioeconomic status and region had any effect on post-transplant outcomes across different races and ethnicities. After another study found that transplant outcomes varied greatly based on multiple factors, researchers wanted to know if socioeconomic factors played into differences based on race.