Various combinations of living and deceased donors for lung retransplantation-a single institutional retrospective study

© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery..

OBJECTIVES: Lung retransplantation has been performed as a treatment option mainly for chronic lung allograft dysfunction; however, the outcomes of lung retransplantation have been reported to be worse than those of primary lung transplantation. Because of the scarcity of deceased donors in our country, our lung transplant experience includes both living and deceased donors. Therefore, we have experienced lung retransplantation cases with various combinations of living and deceased donors. The aim of this study was to explore technical pitfalls and outcomes of lung retransplantation in this unique environment.

METHODS: We performed 311 lung transplantation procedures between April 2002 and October 2022. Eight lung retransplantation cases (2.6%) were analysed retrospectively.

RESULTS: At lung retransplantation, the age of the recipient patients ranged from 11 to 61 years (median, 33 years). The combinations of donor sources (primary lung transplantation/lung retransplantation) were as follows: 2 living/living, 2 deceased/living, 3 living/deceased and 1 deceased/deceased. Seven of 8 patients received lung retransplantation for chronic lung allograft dysfunction. Hospital death occurred in 2 patients (25.0%). The 1-, 3- and 5-year survival rates after lung retransplantation (n = 8) were 75.0%, 75.0% and 75.0%, respectively, while those after primary lung transplantation (n = 303) were 92.8%, 83.4% and 76.4%, respectively (P = 0.162).

CONCLUSIONS: Lung retransplantation with various combinations of living and deceased donors is a technically difficult but feasible procedure with acceptable outcomes.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery - 38(2024), 1 vom: 02. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ohsumi, Akihiro [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Satona [VerfasserIn]
Yamada, Yoshito [VerfasserIn]
Yutaka, Yojiro [VerfasserIn]
Hamaji, Masatsugu [VerfasserIn]
Nakajima, Daisuke [VerfasserIn]
Date, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chronic lung allograft dysfunction
Journal Article
Living donor lung transplantation
Lung retransplantation
Lung transplantation

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Date Revised 02.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/icvts/ivae010

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367212994