Current trends in candidate selection, contraindications, and indications for lung transplantation.

ABSTRACT: Lung transplantation is an established treatment option that can improve quality of life and prolong survival for select patients diagnosed with end-stage lung disease. Given the gaps in organ donation and failures to make effective use of available organs, careful selection of candidates for lung transplant remains one of the most important considerations of the transplant community. Toward this end, we briefly reviewed recent trends in pretransplant evaluation, candidate selection, organ allocation, and organ preservation techniques. Since the latest consensus statement regarding appropriate selection of lung transplant candidates, many advances in the science and practice of lung transplantation have emerged and influenced our perspective of 'contraindications' to transplant. These adva

SUBMITTER: Arjuna A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8662491 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature