Survival After Single Versus Bilateral Lung Transplantation for High-Risk Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
2880221	The Annals of Thoracic Surgery	2009	11 Pages	PDF

Abstract

We provide an initial examination of survival by procedure type and LAS score for LTx recipients with IPF. Bilateral LTx appears to offer advantages over SLT for high-risk patients.

Keywords

FEV1 LAS IPF IQR SLT BLT bilateral lung transplantation LTX lung allocation score ICU intensive care unit forced expiratory volume at 1 second United Network for Organ Sharing idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis interquartile range hazard ratio single lung transplantation Lung transplantation UNOS

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Survival After Single Versus Bilateral Lung Transplantation for High-Risk Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis

Authors

Eric S. MD, MPH, Jeremiah G. MD, Christian A. MD, MPH, John V. MD, Ashish S. MD,