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

Autor: Wiebke Sommer, Maximilian Franz, Khalil Aburahma, Akylbek Saipbaev, Katharina Flöthmann, Pavel Yablonski, Murat Avsar, Igor Tudorache, Mark Greer, Axel Haverich, Tobias Welte, Christian Kuehn, Jawad Salman, Gregor Warnecke, Fabio Ius
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Transplant International. 36
ISSN: 1432-2277
Popis: 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
Databáze: OpenAIRE