The lung allocation score could evaluate allocation systems in countries that do not use the score.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating allocation system effects on lung transplantation and determining systemic flaws is difficult. The purpose of this study was to assess the Korean urgency-based lung allocation system using the lung allocation score.

Methods

We reviewed transplantation patients retrospectively. Candidates were classified into groups based on urgency. Status 0 designated hospitalized patients requiring ventilator and/or extracorporeal life support. The lung allocation score was calculated based on the recipient's condition at transplantation.

Results

One-hundred-twenty-three Status 0, 1, and 2/3 patients (40, 71, and 12, respectively) were enrolled. The median waiting time was 68 days. Nineteen Status 0 patients who received lung transplants deteriorated from non-S

SUBMITTER: Yu WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6447215 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature