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Shudo Y, Wang H, Lingala B, He H, Kim FY, Hiesinger W, Lee AM, Boyd JH, Currie M, Woo YJ. Evaluation of Risk Factors for Heart-Lung Transplant Recipient Outcome: An Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database. Circulation 2019; 140:1261-1272. [PMID: 31589491 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.119.040682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Heart-lung transplantation (HLTx) is an effective treatment for patients with advanced cardiopulmonary failure. However, no large multicenter study has focused on the relationship between donor and recipient risk factors and post-HLTx outcomes. Thus, we investigated this issue using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing database. METHODS All adult patients (age ≥18 years) registered in the United Network for Organ Sharing database who underwent HLTx between 1987 and 2017 were included (n=997). We stratified the cohort by patients who were alive without retransplant at 1 year (n=664) and patients who died or underwent retransplant within 1 year of HLTx (n=333). The primary outcome was the influence of donor and recipient characteristics on 1-year post-HLTx recipient death or retransplant. Kaplan-Meier curves were created to assess overall freedom from death or retransplant. To obtain a better effect estimation on hazard and survival time, the parametric Accelerated Failure Time model was chosen to perform time-to-event modeling analyses. RESULTS Overall graft survival at 1-year post-HLTx was 66.6%. Of donors, 53% were male, and the mean age was 28.2 years. Univariable analysis showed advanced donor age, recipient male sex, recipient creatinine, recipient history of prior cardiac or lung surgery, recipient extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support, transplant year, and transplant center volume were associated with 1-year post-HLTx death or retransplant. On multivariable analysis, advanced donor age (hazard ratio [HR], 1.017; P=0.0007), recipient male sex (HR, 1.701; P=0.0002), recipient extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support (HR, 4.854; P<0.0001), transplant year (HR, 0.962; P<0.0001), and transplantation at low-volume (HR, 1.694) and medium-volume centers (HR, 1.455) in comparison with high-volume centers (P=0.0007) remained as significant predictors of death or retransplant. These predictors were incorporated into an equation capable of estimating the preliminary probability of graft survival at 1-year post-HLTx on the basis of preoperative factors alone. CONCLUSIONS HLTx outcomes may be improved by considering the strong influence of donor age, recipient sex, recipient hemodynamic status, and transplant center volume. Marginal donors and recipients without significant factors contributing to poor post-HLTx outcomes may still be considered for transplantation, potentially with less impact on the risk of early postoperative death or retransplant.
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- Yasuhiro Shudo
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
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Chambers DC, Cherikh WS, Goldfarb SB, Hayes D, Kucheryavaya AY, Toll AE, Khush KK, Levvey BJ, Meiser B, Rossano JW, Stehlik J. The International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Thirty-fifth adult lung and heart-lung transplant report-2018; Focus theme: Multiorgan Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2018; 37:1169-1183. [PMID: 30293613 DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2018.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 308] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- Daniel C Chambers
- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas
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- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation-International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry, Dallas, Texas.
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Carter V. My approach to cardiothoracic transplantation and the role of the histocompatibility and immunogenetics laboratory in a rapidly developing field. J Clin Pathol 2010; 63:189-93. [PMID: 20203218 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2009.068478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Cardiothoracic transplantation presents specific challenges. The lack of long-term replacement therapy (such as dialysis for kidney patients) creates a more urgent situation than for other forms of transplantation, necessitating a different approach. This review looks at ways in which the challenges are being met and the integral role of the histocompatibility and immunogenetics laboratory.
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Freitas MCS. Trend in lung transplantation in the U.S.: an analysis of the UNOS registry. Clin Transpl 2010:17-33. [PMID: 21696029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The number of lung transplants continues to increase in the U.S. The most significant change over the last decade occurred after the 2005 implementation of LAS. When the percentage of patients being transplanted increased even further, while time-to-transplant and the number of patients dying on the waiting list significantly declined. As a result of implementation of LAS in 2005, IPF recipients became the largest group to receive a lung transplant. And the number of transplants for patients age 60 and over has increased significantly. The number of DL transplants performed yearly increased while the number of SL transplants has remained relatively consistent throughout the last decade. Though the gender distribution of recipients has fluctuated each year, the proportion of females receiving lung transplant has decreased. Of the deceased-donor DL and SL transplant recipients, 69% had a cold ischemia time between 3-6 hrs. And 79% of primary DL and SL transplant recipients had a 0% PRA. 6. A higher number of HLA mismatches impacts unfavorably on graft survival rates; yet, surprisingly, zero HLA A-B-DR MM also have an unfavorable impact; Recipients with less than two hours of cold ischemia-time (n = 815, 4.3%) have the worst five-year graft survival; PRA levels greater than 25% have an unfavorable impact on graft survival.
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This article examines the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data on heart and lung transplantation in the United States from 1996 to 2005. The number of heart transplants performed and the size of the heart waiting list continued to drop, reaching 2126 and 1334, respectively, in 2005. Over the decade, post-transplant graft and patient survival improved, as did the chances for survival while on the heart waiting list. The number of deceased donor lung transplants increased by 78% since 1996, reaching 1407 in 2005 (up 22% from 2004). There were 3170 registrants awaiting lung transplantation at the end of 2005, down 18% from 2004. Death rates for both candidates and recipients have been dropping, as has the time spent waiting for a lung transplant. Other lung topics covered are living donation, recent surgical advances and changes in immunosuppression regimens. Heart-lung transplantation has declined to a small (33 procedures in 2005) but important need in the United States.
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- E R Garrity
- University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Dark J. A profile of John Dark, FRCS, FRCP. Interview by Jim McGuigan. Circulation 2006; 113:f87-8. [PMID: 16758536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Wojarski J, Jastrzebski D, Zembala M. Current status of lung transplantation in Poland: experience of the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases. J Physiol Pharmacol 2005; 56 Suppl 4:245-9. [PMID: 16204800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Until the year 2001, lung transplantation was not available in Poland, as the only one among other kinds of solid organs transplantation. In 2001, in the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases the first successful combined heart-lung-one-block transplantation was performed. In 2003 and 2004, a successful single lung transplantation in Poland was performed in our center. Here the authors presented their experience with lung transplantation including the indications for specific types of transplantation, the immunosuppressive regimen, the management of early and late stages after lung transplantation, the infection complications, and the current problems with lung transplantation progress.
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- J Wojarski
- Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, Zabrze, Poland
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This article reviews the history of organ transplantation, specifically focusing on the advances leading to the first successful human lung transplant. It also provides an overview of the com-mon indications and general selection criteria for lung transplant recipients, highlights areas of current controversy in pulmonary transplantation, reviews current approaches to posttransplantation immunosuppression, and discusses common complications seen intransplant recipients.
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This article presents an overview of factors associated with thoracic transplantation outcomes over the past decade and provides valuable information regarding the heart, lung, and heart-lung waiting lists and thoracic organ transplant recipients. Waiting list and post-transplant information is used to assess the importance of patient demographics, risk factors, and primary cardiopulmonary disease on outcomes. The time that the typical listed patient has been waiting for a heart, lung, or heart-lung transplant has markedly increased over the past decade, while the number of transplants performed has declined slightly and survival after transplant has plateaued. Waiting list mortality, however, appears to be declining for each organ and for most diseases and high-severity subgroups, perhaps in response to recent changes in organ allocation algorithms. Based on perceived inequity in organ access and in response to a mandate from Health Resources and Services Administration, the lung transplant community is developing a lung allocation system designed to minimize deaths on the waiting list while maximizing the benefit of transplant by incorporating post-transplant survival and quality of life into the algorithm. Areas where improved data collection could inform evolving organ allocation and candidate selection policies are emphasized.
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Since the first successful heart transplantation by Christian Barnard in 1967, there have been over 60 000 heart transplants performed worldwide. Around 350 paediatric heart transplants are now performed annually and approximately 10% of these are in the UK.
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- M Burch
- Dept of Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.
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Deng MC, Edwards LB, Hertz MI, Rowe AW, Kormos RL. Mechanical Circulatory Support device database of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: first annual report--2003. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003; 22:653-62. [PMID: 12821162 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(03)00183-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Over the last 2 decades, mechanical circulatory support devices have been developed with the goal of supporting patients with advanced heart failure as a bridge to cardiac transplantation, a bridge to recovery, and an alternative to transplantation (also called chronic or destination therapy). The current generation of devices provides a differentiated spectrum of circulatory support. The major limitations of mechanical circulatory support devices are infection, coagulopathies and device dysfunction. The Scientific Council on Mechanical Circulatory Support of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation has established an international database to generate critical data to advance knowledge about the effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support device therapy for one of the most difficult and costly contemporary medical problems, the malignant syndrome of advanced heart failure.
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- Mario C Deng
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, Addison, Texas, USA.
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Trulock EP, Edwards LB, Taylor DO, Boucek MM, Mohacsi PJ, Keck BM, Hertz MI. The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Twentieth Official adult lung and heart-lung transplant report--2003. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003; 22:625-35. [PMID: 12821160 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(03)00182-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- Elbert P Trulock
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, Addison, Texas, USA.
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Boucek MM, Edwards LB, Keck BM, Trulock EP, Taylor DO, Mohacsi PJ, Hertz MI. The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Sixth Official Pediatric Report--2003. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003; 22:636-52. [PMID: 12821161 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(03)00184-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Mark M Boucek
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, Addison, Texas, USA.
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Madhu Sankar N, Kurian VM, Rajan S, Ninan B, Ajit M, Cherian KM. Heart-lung transplantation in India: initial experience. Indian Heart J 2003; 55:185-7. [PMID: 12921339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023] Open
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Heart-lung transplantation is a well accepted and standard form of therapy for the surgical management of patients with end-stage cardiopulmonary disorders. The first heart-lung transplant in India was performed at our institution on May 3, 1999 and, subsequently, 2 more patients have undergone this procedure. The initial experience is encouraging and heralds a new era of thoracic organ transplantation in India.
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- N Madhu Sankar
- Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Mogappair, Chennai
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Hertz MI, Mohacsi PJ, Boucek MM, Taylor DO, Trulock EP, Deng MC, Rowe AW. The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: past, present and future. J Heart Lung Transplant 2002; 21:945-9. [PMID: 12231365 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(02)00499-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Standards and new developments of thoracic organ transplantation are reviewed with particular focus on current treatment strategies, alternatives to transplantation, and xenotransplantation. The current indications for heart, single and bilateral sequential lung, and heart-lung transplantation as well as the technical aspects of each procedure are presented. Criteria for transplant recipients and absolute and relative contraindications are pointed out. Criteria for donor selection are also reviewed. The results of single, double-sequential, and heart-lung transplantation over the past 10 years as reported by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Database are stated. In addition, the experience of the lung and heart-lung transplantation program at the Hannover Medical School is reviewed, including the current immunosuppression regimens. This experience includes 1075 heart,heart-lung, and lung transplantations since 1983. The 1- and 5-year actuarial survival rates for heart transplant recipients are 81% and 70%, for heart-lung recipients 76% and 61%, and for single and double lung transplant recipients 77% and 59%, respectively. During the past decade there has been continuous improvement in the results of heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantation. Alternatives to thoracic organ transplantation, living-related lobar transplantation, new antirejection agents, and xenograft transplantation are areas for continuing and future investigation.
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- Wolfgang Harringer
- Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30623 , Germany
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Boucek MM, Faro A, Novick RJ, Bennett LE, Keck BM, Hosenpud JD. The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Fourth Official Pediatric Report--2000. J Heart Lung Transplant 2001; 20:39-52. [PMID: 11166611 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(00)00243-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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- M M Boucek
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children's Hospital, Department of Cardiology, 1056 East 19th Ave., B100, Denver, CO 80218-1088, USA
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Reynaud-Gaubert M, Pison C, Stern M, Haloun A, Velly JF, Jacquelinet C, Navarro J, Mornex JF. [Indications for lung and heart -lung transplantation in adults. SPLF-SCTCVLF-EFG-AFLM Lung Transplantation Group]. Rev Mal Respir 2000; 17:1119-32. [PMID: 11217512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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- M Reynaud-Gaubert
- Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Hôpital Sainte Marguerite, 270 boulevard Sainte Marguerite, BP 29, 13274 Marseille.
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Matsuda H. [Current status and the future of organ transplantation. 2) On heart and heart-lung transplantation]. Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi 2000; 89:1877-82. [PMID: 11051666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Hosenpud JD, Bennett LE, Keck BM, Fiol B, Boucek MM, Novick RJ. The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: sixteenth official report--1999. J Heart Lung Transplant 1999; 18:611-26. [PMID: 10452337 DOI: 10.1016/s1053-2498(99)00037-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 322] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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- J D Hosenpud
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
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Conte JV. Thoracic transplantation in 1998. Md Med J 1998; 47:235-40. [PMID: 9798378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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Thoracic transplantation has been a clinical option for patients with end-stage heart and lung disease for three decades. Heart, lung, and combined heart-lung transplantations are no longer experimental procedures; they are a standard part of the treatment algorithm for selected patients with end-stage heart and lung disease. This article summarizes the current status of heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantations and provides an insight into the future of this field.
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- J V Conte
- Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA
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Grover FL, Fullerton DA, Zamora MR, Mills C, Ackerman B, Badesch D, Brown JM, Campbell DN, Chetham P, Dhaliwal A, Diercks M, Kinnard T, Niejadlik K, Ochs M. The past, present, and future of lung transplantation. Am J Surg 1997; 173:523-33. [PMID: 9207168 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9610(97)00004-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND The history of lung transplantation from the first human transplant performed in 1963 to the present is reviewed with particular focus on the added challenges because of the contaminated bronchus, exposure of the graft to airborne organisms, the poor blood supply to the bronchus, and the problem of reperfusion pulmonary edema. METHODS The technical aspects of single and double sequential lung transplantation are reviewed, as are the current indications for single, double sequential, and heart/lung transplantation. Criteria for lung transplant recipients, in addition to their primary disease are noted, as are absolute and relative contraindications. The standard criteria for donor selection are also reviewed. RESULTS The results of single, double sequential, and heart-lung transplantation over the past 10 years as reported by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Database are reviewed. In addition, the statistics of the lung and heart-lung transplantation program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center are reviewed, including the current immunosuppressive regimens and early and late monitoring for infection and rejection. This experience includes 3 early deaths in the first 53 patients for an operative mortality of 5.6%, with a 1-year actuarial survival of 90%. CONCLUSIONS During the past decade remarkable improvement in the result of single and double sequential lung transplantation have occurred. As 1-year, actuarial survival is now approaching 90% at some institutions. Living related lobar transplantation, new antirejection agents, chimerism, and xenograft transplantation are areas for continuing and future investigation. The shortage in donor organ supply continues to be a very significant factor in limiting human lung transplantation.
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- F L Grover
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Denver VA Medical Center, 80262, USA
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Indications for unilateral, bilateral, heart-lung, and lobar transplant procedures for emphysema, cystic fibrosis, primary pulmonary hypertension, and pulmonary fibrosis are presented, and a brief historical perspective of the procedures is supplied.
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- G A Patterson
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Kondo T, Fujimura S, Saito R, Matsumura Y, Ohura H, Hirose M, Sugita M, Sado T, Minowa M. [Present international status and basic approach of lung and heart-lung transplantation]. Nihon Geka Gakkai Zasshi 1996; 97:997-1002. [PMID: 9010856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Lung transplantation has been established as an optional treatment for variable irreversible diffuse lung diseases. To date, more than 5,000 patients have underwent lung transplantation, and nearly 1,000 procedures a year are performed recently. Although heart-lung transplantation has also been technically established, this procedure is confined to quite limited conditions due to the severe shortage of donors and many difficulties in operative procedure and the patient management. Preservation, post-transplantation edema, diagnosis of rejection, chronic rejection, shortage of donor organs, are principal problems in clinical lung transplantation, 24-hour preservation proved to be possible in several recent experimental studies, and the reperfusion injury has been revealed to be one of causes of post-transplantation edema. Establishment of methods for long-term pulmonary preservation and for the treatment of post-transplantation edema may be promising in the near future. Shortage of donor lung is one of major limiting factors. Research works on xenotransplantation and cadaver lung transplantation are on going, and these may help in solving this problem.
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- T Kondo
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Kurland G, Orenstein DM. Complications of pediatric lung and heart-lung transplantation. Curr Opin Pediatr 1994; 6:262-71. [PMID: 8061735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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As more children receive lung and heart-lung transplants, understanding posttransplantation complications becomes more important. Complications can be categorized as 1) anatomic and surgical, 2) infectious, 3) rejection, 4) posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD), and 5) drug-related. In the early posttransplantation period, reimplantation injury and vascular obstruction with thrombus formation may occur, whereas stenosis at tracheal or bronchial anastomotic sites develops more slowly. Infections in the transplanted lung are common, and can be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or protozoans. Both acute and chronic rejection are potentially serious. Frequent or severe episodes of acute rejection increase the risk of chronic rejection, characterized by obliterative bronchiolitis. Differentiating rejection from infection requires tissue, obtained through transbronchial or open lung biopsy. PTLD, related to Epstein-Barr virus infection, is common in children, and difficult to treat. Finally, drug toxicity from immunosuppressive agents causes considerable morbidity. Increased understanding will continue to improve the outcome for children undergoing lung and heart-lung transplantation.
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- G Kurland
- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Dark JH. Lung transplantation. Transplant Proc 1994; 26:1708-9. [PMID: 8030095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- J H Dark
- Regional Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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Heart-lung transplantation has become an established treatment for end stage respiratory failure secondary to cystic fibrosis. The success of this form of treatment, and the increasing survival of such patients, suggests there will be an increased need for transplantation over the next decade. We have used cystic fibrosis population predictions and all cause mortality data to estimate the number of cardio-pulmonary deaths, due to cystic fibrosis, over the next decade and to estimate the number of such patients who are likely to benefit from heart-lung transplantation. We estimate that there will be between 85 and 127 potential transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis each year over the next decade. During 1990, 1991 and 1992 there were less than 40 transplants each year in such patients. These data emphasize the need to expand transplantation services and to maintain the availability of donor organs.
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- J S Elborn
- Section of Respiratory Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Llandough Hospital, Penarth, U.K
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Armitage JM, Fricker FJ, Kurland G, Michaels M, Griffith BP. Pediatric lung transplantation: expanding indications, 1985 to 1993. J Heart Lung Transplant 1993; 12:S246-54. [PMID: 8312344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The application of lung transplantation to the pediatric population was a natural extension of the success realized in our adult transplant program, which began in 1982. Thirty-two pediatric patients (age range 1 to 18 years) have undergone heart-lung (n = 16), double-lung (n = 14), and single-lung (n = 2) transplantation procedures. The cause of end-stage lung disease was primary pulmonary hypertension (n = 7), congenital heart disease (n = 7), cystic fibrosis (n = 9), pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (n = 2), desquamative interstitial pneumonitis (n = 2), graft-versus-host disease (n = 1), emphysema (n = 1), rheumatoid lung (n = 1), cardiomyopathy (n = 1), and Proteus syndrome (n = 1). Six patients (19%) underwent pretransplantation thoracic surgical procedures. The survival rate was 78% at a mean follow-up of 1.8 years. The survival rate in the 23 recipients without cystic fibrosis was 87% (95% since 1985). The actuarial 1-year survival rate in the nine recipients with cystic fibrosis was 55%. Immunosuppression was cyclosporine (n = 9) or FK 506 (n = 23)-based therapy with azathioprine and steroids. Children were followed up by spirometry, transbronchial biopsy, and primed lymphocyte testing of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. The mean number of treated episodes of rejection per patient in the groups treated with cyclosporine and FK 506, respectively, was 1.0 and 1.2 at 30 days, 0.67 and 0.38 at 30 to 90 days, and 2.33 and 0.46 at greater than 90 days (p < 0.001, Fisher exact test).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J M Armitage
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA
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Reemtsma K, Gelijns AC, Sisk JE, Arons RR, Boozang PM, Berland GK, Evans CM, Smith CR. Supporting future surgical innovation. Lung transplantation as a case study. Ann Surg 1993; 218:465-73; discussion 474-5. [PMID: 8215638 PMCID: PMC1243001 DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199310000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Using lung transplantation as a case study, this article addressed the problem of supporting innovative clinical surgery in an era of increasing pressures for cost containment. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA After sporadic attempts at lung transplantation during the 1960s and 1970s, its clinical development began in earnest during the early 1980s. As a result of a wide range of incremental advances, the results have improved significantly. The Health Care Financing Administration, however, has not yet issued a national policy covering lung transplants and has left the coverage decision to the discretion of its regional contractors. METHODS The authors surveyed the major commercial insurers, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and a sample of Medicare intermediaries to evaluate the coverage of lung transplantation. They also interviewed the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and industrial firms about their support for clinical research. RESULTS Government and industry funding were limited, and the development and assessment of lung transplants have been financed predominantly by academic institutions through cross-subsidization from patient care and teaching funds. The major private payers and Blue Cross Blue Shield decided to cover this procedure in the early 1990s. Coverage decisions by Medicare intermediaries, however, revealed considerable variability. Moreover, the absence of a specific diagnosis-related group for lung transplants had considerable consequences for institutions in all-payer states, in which payments appeared to be considerably lower than the mean costs of a transplant procedure (about $110,000). CONCLUSIONS This analysis indicated that there was a growing disparity between the increasing demand for outcomes data about new procedures and the limited resources available for supporting the development and assessment of new operations. It this disparity is not addressed, the rate of surgical innovation may be jeopardized, and timely outcomes data may not be acquired. It was concluded that provisional coverage within a predetermined research protocol may be a promising mechanism to remedy this situation, providing timely assessment of new procedures before widespread application.
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- K Reemtsma
- Habif Center for Surgical Studies, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
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Heart, heart-lung, and lung transplantation have become accepted modalities for treatment in children with serious cardiopulmonary disease. Although early deaths secondary to infection and/or acute rejection have been reduced dramatically, there is still an early mortality related to cardiac complications and a late mortality related to rejection and infection. The management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome remains a special problem and is outlined in the review. There is much less experience in the newer modalities of heart-lung and lung transplantation in children and the results of these operative procedures are similar to what was seen in heart transplantation some 10 years ago. Ongoing and significant improvement continues, however, in all forms of transplantation dealing with the lung.
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- D S Moodie
- Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195
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Transplantation of the heart is now accepted and perhaps even routine therapy for patients near death from heart disease. Better, more specific, less toxic molecules are under investigation for the control of rejection. The Holy Grail of tolerance is not beyond the realm of possibility. The mini-chimera concept almost certainly raises the specter of potentially successful xenografts. If not in this decade, certainly in this generation. Transplantation of the heart and both lungs constituted the first successful lung transplant of any kind. The ultimate division of indications for single lung, sequential bilateral lung, or heart-lung transplantation will be settled only by the accumulation of more clinical data. With respect to pulmonary transplantation, a few technical points have become clear. First, the double lung transplant with a tracheal anastomosis has been abandoned owing to the complications of tracheal stenosis and tracheal dehiscence. Second, there is no need to wrap the bronchial anastomosis with omentum; there is no need to "telescope" the donor bronchus. Finally, simple, continuous polypropylene suture technique should be used for any tracheal (heart-lung transplantation) or bronchial anastomosis.
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- P M Spratt
- St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW
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Shennib H, Adoumie R, Noirclerc M. Current status of lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis. Arch Intern Med 1992; 152:1585-8. [PMID: 1497391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Lung transplantation has emerged as an acceptable option for the management of cystic fibrosis patients with endstage lung disease. Heart-lung transplantation and, more recently, double lung transplantation have been successfully performed in this group of patients. The choice of operation, so far, has been based on the surgeon's preference and experience as well as the cardiac function of the patient. Each of the procedures has advantages and disadvantages. This article reviews the current worldwide experience in lung transplantation for patients with cystic fibrosis and highlights the controversies involved in the selection of patients and procedure.
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- H Shennib
- Joint Marseille-Montreal Lung Transplant Program, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada
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Stolf N. [Heart-lung transplantation: an concept in evolution]. Arq Bras Cardiol 1991; 57:169-70. [PMID: 1823775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Lupi Herrera E. [Heart and heart-lung transplantation as therapy]. GAC MED MEX 1990; 126:114-5. [PMID: 2387487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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