The number of lung transplants can be safely doubled using extended criteria donors; A single-center review

Transplant International

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 628-635

  Meers, Caroline ^a   Van Raemdonck, Dirk ^a   Verleden, Geert M ^a   Coosemans, Willy ^a   Decaluwe, Herbert ^a   De Leyn, Paul ^a   Nafteux, Philippe ^a   Lerut, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Expanded donor pool; Extended criteria donors; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG CYSTIC FIBROSIS; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGENATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DONOR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SMOKING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951959070     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.01033.x     Document Type: Review

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