Survival benefit of lung transplantation compared with medical management and pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with end-stage COPD

Survival benefit of lung transplantation compared with medical management and pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with end-stage COPD

Background COPD patients account for a large proportion of lung transplants; lung transplantation survival benefit for COPD patients is not well established. Methods We identified 4521 COPD patients in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) dataset transplanted from May 2005 to August 2016, and...

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Main Authors: Irina Timofte, Marniker Wijesinha, Roumen Vesselinov, June Kim, Robert Reed, Pablo G. Sanchez, Nicholas Ladikos, Si Pham, Zachary Kon, Keshava Rajagopal, Steven M. Scharf, Robert Wise, Alice L. Sternberg, David Kaczorowski, Bartley Griffith, Michael Terrin, Aldo Iacono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Respiratory Society 2020-04-01
Series:ERJ Open Research
Online Access:http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/6/2/00177-2019.full

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