Effect of revised organ transplant law in Japan on lung transplantation

Effect of revised organ transplant law in Japan on lung transplantation

Purpose To investigate how revision of the organ transplant law in Japan affected lung transplantation in this country. Methods Lung transplant candidates registered between January, 2000 and December, 2009 were designated as the pre-revision group (n = 396) and those registered between January, 201...

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Veröffentlicht in:Surgery today (Tokyo, Japan) Japan), 2024-10, Vol.54 (10), p.1220-1226
Hauptverfasser: Imamura, Yoshito, Nakajima, Daisuke, Kanou, Takashi, Shintani, Yasushi, Sugimoto, Seiichiro, Toyooka, Shinichi, Hoshikawa, Yasushi, Matsumoto, Keitaro, Nagayasu, Takeshi, Suzuki, Hidemi, Maeda, Sumiko, Chida, Masayuki, Shiraishi, Takeshi, Sato, Toshihiko, Sato, Masaaki, Nakajima, Jun, Oishi, Hisashi, Okada, Yoshinori, Date, Hiroshi
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Sprache:eng
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Medicine & Public Health
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Surgical Oncology
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Zusammenfassung:Purpose To investigate how revision of the organ transplant law in Japan affected lung transplantation in this country. Methods Lung transplant candidates registered between January, 2000 and December, 2009 were designated as the pre-revision group (n = 396) and those registered between January, 2011 and December, 2020, as the post-revision group (n = 1326). Both groups were analyzed retrospectively using data collected by the Japanese Society of Lung and Heart–Lung Transplantation. Results The number of patients who underwent brain-dead donor lung transplantation (BDLT) increased significantly after the law amendment (32.2 vs. 13.8%, p 
ISSN:0941-1291
1436-2813
1436-2813
DOI:10.1007/s00595-024-02839-5