Donor Lung Sequence Number and Survival after Lung Transplantation in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

In the United States, an algorithm known as the "match-run" creates an ordered ranking of potential recipients for available lung allografts. A potential recipient's match-run position, or "sequence number," is available to the transplant center when contacted with a lung offer. Lung offers with higher sequence numbers may be interpreted as a crowd-sourced evaluation of poor organ quality, though the association between the sequence number at which a lung is accepted and its recipient's post-transplant outcomes is unclear.

Objectives

We sought to evaluate the primary reasons provided when a lung offer was refused by a transplant center, transplant center and donor/organ factors associated with a higher sequence number at acceptance, and the association of the seque

SUBMITTER: Harhay MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6394123 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature