Dirk Van Raemdonck, Shaf Keshavjee, Bronwyn Levvey, Wida S Cherikh, Greg Snell, Michiel Erasmus, André Simon, Allan R Glanville, Stephen Clark, Frank D'Ovidio, Pedro Catarino, Kenneth McCurry, Marshall I Hertz, Rajamiyer Venkateswaran, Peter Hopkins, Ilhan Inci, Rajat Walia, Daniel Kreisel, Jorge Mascaro, Daniel F Dilling, Philip Camp, David Mason, Michael Musk, Michael Burch, Andrew Fisher, Roger D Yusen, Josef Stehlik, Marcelo Cypel
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to examine intermediate-term outcomes of lung transplantation (LTx) recipients from donors after circulatory death (DCD). METHODS: We examined the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Thoracic Transplant Registry data for patients transplanted between January 2003 and June 2017 at 22 centers in North America, Europe, and Australia participating in the DCD Registry. The distribution of continuous variables was summarized as median and interquartile range (IQR) values...
December 2019: Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation