Extended donor criteria in lung transplantation: Impact on organ allocation Phil Botha, MRCS, Dipesh Trivedi, FRCS, Christopher J. Weir, PhD, Cait P. Searl, FRCA, Paul A. Corris, FRCP, John H. Dark, FRCS, Stephan V.B. Schueler, FRCS The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 131, Issue 5, Pages 1154-1160 (May 2006) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.037 Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Allocation of marginal organs: percentage of patients in each diagnostic subgroup receiving organs from marginal donors. PPH, Primary pulmonary hypertension. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 131, 1154-1160DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.037) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Thirty-day mortality with marginal and standard donors in single and bilateral transplantation. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 131, 1154-1160DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.037) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Cumulative survival (all-cause mortality) for recipients of standard versus marginal donor lungs (in days). P = .28, log-rank test. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 131, 1154-1160DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.037) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 4 Cumulative bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS)–free survival (in days). P = .85, log-rank test. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 131, 1154-1160DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.037) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions