Yoshito Imamura, Daisuke Nakajima, Takashi Kanou, Yasushi Shintani, Seiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Toyooka, Yasushi Hoshikawa, Keitaro Matsumoto, Takeshi Nagayasu, Hidemi Suzuki, Sumiko Maeda, Masayuki Chida, Takeshi Shiraishi, Toshihiko Sato, Masaaki Sato, Jun Nakajima, Hisashi Oishi, Yoshinori Okada, Hiroshi Date
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...
April 15, 2024: Surgery Today