Long-term outcome after pulmonary retransplantation Martin Strueber, MD, Stefan Fischer, MD, MSc, Jens Gottlieb, MD, Andre R. Simon, MD, Heidi Goerler, MD, Bernhard Gohrbandt, MD, Tobias Welte, MD, Axel Haverich, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 132, Issue 2, Pages 407-412 (August 2006) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059 Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Indications for primary lung transplantation compared with re-LTx for acute graft failure. Tx, Transplantation; gf, graft failure; ppht, primary pulmonary hypertension; pht-sec, secondary pulmonary hypertension. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 132, 407-412DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Indications for re-LTx for airway complications compared with re-LTx for chronic graft failure (BOS). gf, Graft failure; ppht, primary pulmonary hypertension; pht-sec, secondary pulmonary hypertension. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 132, 407-412DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Age of transplant recipients by indication. tf, Transplant; gf, graft failure. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 132, 407-412DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 4 Survival of all primary transplant recipients and of re-LTx candidates by indication. TX, Transplant; gf, graft failure. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 132, 407-412DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 5 Cumulative survival of 151 consecutive patients undergoing primary LTx with and without mechanical ventilation before LTx. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 132, 407-412DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 6 Freedom from BOS in long-term survivors after primary LTx and re-LTx for BOS. Differences are not significant (log rank: P = .09). TX, Transplant. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 132, 407-412DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 7 Surveillance of quality of life (QoL) in lung transplant recipients at the Hannover Thoracic Transplant Program.15 The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 132, 407-412DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.12.059) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions