Authors
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, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Publication date
2019/12/1
Journal
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume
38
Issue
12
Pages
1235-1245
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
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. Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare distribution of continuous variables and chi-square or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables. Kaplan-Meier survival rates after LTx from January 2003 to June 2016 were compared between DCD-III (Maastricht category III withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy [WLST]) only and donors after brain death (DBD) using the log-rank test. Risk …
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