Negmeldeen Mamoun, Morgan A Rosser, Michael Manning, Karthik Raghunathan, Sharon McCartney, Sachin Mehta, Krista Ingle, Brandi Bottiger
INTRODUCTION: The nature, intensity, and progression of acute pain after bilateral orthotopic lung transplantation (BOLT) performed via a clamshell incision has not been well investigated. We aimed to describe acute pain after clamshell incisions using pain trajectories for the study cohort, in addition to stratifying patients into separate pain trajectory groups and investigating their association with donor and recipient perioperative variables. METHODS: After obtaining IRB approval, we retrospectively included all patients ≥18 years old who underwent primary BOLT via clamshell incision at a single center between January 1, 2017, and June 30, 2022...
February 2024: Clinical Transplantation