Lungs From Donors ≥70 Years of Age for Transplantation-Do Long-Term Outcomes Justify Their Use?

Lungs From Donors ≥70 Years of Age for Transplantation-Do Long-Term Outcomes Justify Their Use?

Donor shortages have led transplant centers to extend their criteria for lung donors. Accepting lung donors ≥70 years of age has previously shown good short-term outcomes; however, no mid- and long-term outcome data on these extended criteria donors has been published to date. In this study, all pat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Transplant international 2023-04, Vol.36, p.11071-11071
Hauptverfasser: Sommer, Wiebke, Franz, Maximilian, Aburahma, Khalil, Saipbaev, Akylbek, Flöthmann, Katharina, Yablonski, Pavel, Avsar, Murat, Tudorache, Igor, Greer, Mark, Haverich, Axel, Welte, Tobias, Kuehn, Christian, Salman, Jawad, Warnecke, Gregor, Ius, Fabio
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Age Factors
Health Archive
Humans
Lung
Lung Transplantation
Retrospective Studies
Tissue Donors
Treatment Outcome
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Zusammenfassung:Donor shortages have led transplant centers to extend their criteria for lung donors. Accepting lung donors ≥70 years of age has previously shown good short-term outcomes; however, no mid- and long-term outcome data on these extended criteria donors has been published to date. In this study, all patients who underwent lung transplantation between 06/2010 and 12/2019 were included in the analysis, and the outcomes were compared between patients receiving organs from donors
ISSN:1432-2277
0934-0874
1432-2277
DOI:10.3389/ti.2023.11071