Double‐lung versus heart‐lung transplantation for precapillary pulmonary arterial hypertension: a 24‐year single‐center retrospective study

Summary Transplant type for end‐stage pulmonary vascular disease remains debatable. We compared recipient outcome after heart‐lung (HLT) versus double‐lung (DLT) transplantation. Single‐center analysis (38 HLT–30 DLT; 1991–2014) for different causes of precapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH): idiop...

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Veröffentlicht in:Transplant international 2019-07, Vol.32 (7), p.717-729
Hauptverfasser: Brouckaert, Janne, Verleden, Stijn E., Verbelen, Tom, Coosemans, Willy, Decaluwé, Herbert, De Leyn, Paul, Depypere, Lieven, Nafteux, Philippe, Van Veer, Hans, Meyns, Bart, Rega, Filip, Van De Velde, Marc, Poortmans, Gert, Rex, Steffen, Neyrinck, Arne, Van den Berghe, Greet, Vlasselaers, Dirk, Van Cleemput, Johan, Budts, Werner, Vos, Robin, Quarck, Rozenn, Belge, Catharina, Delcroix, Marion, Verleden, Geert M., Van Raemdonck, Dirk
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Zusammenfassung:Summary Transplant type for end‐stage pulmonary vascular disease remains debatable. We compared recipient outcome after heart‐lung (HLT) versus double‐lung (DLT) transplantation. Single‐center analysis (38 HLT–30 DLT; 1991–2014) for different causes of precapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH): idiopathic (22); heritable (two); drug‐induced (nine); hepato‐portal (one); connective tissue disease (four); congenital heart disease (CHD) (24); chronic thromboembolic PH (six). HLT decreased from 91.7% [1991–1995] to 21.4% [2010–2014]. Re‐intervention for bleeding was higher after HLT; (P = 0.06) while primary graft dysfunction grades 2 and 3 occurred more after DLT; (P 
ISSN:0934-0874
1432-2277
DOI:10.1111/tri.13409