Effects of case volume on short- and long-term outcomes following cadaveric lung transplantation in Japan

2024 Journal of Thoracic Disease. All rights reserved..

Background: Despite the low number of lung transplantations (LTs) in Japan, 10 LT facilities are accredited and good outcomes have been reported. A database review was conducted to clarify the impact of case volume at LT facilities in Japan on short- and long-term outcomes.

Methods: All cadaveric LT cases treated between 2000 and 2021 in Japan were analyzed using the database of the Japanese Society of Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation (JSLHT). The nine institutions represented were categorized into the low-volume (LV; <80 cumulative LT cases, <8 LTs/year, n=5) and high-volume (HV; ≥80 cumulative LT cases, ≥8 LTs/year, n=4) centers. Ninety-day and 1-year mortality, as well as 5- and 10-year survival data were evaluated.

Results: A total of 658 cadaveric LTs were performed at the nine institutions. The 90-day rates of mortality at the HV and LV centers were 3.5% and 3.9%, respectively (P=0.801), while the 1-year mortality rates were 9.2% and 11.5%, respectively (P=0.199). Additionally, log-rank analysis of Kaplan-Meier curves showing case volume did not reveal a significant difference in long-term survival between the HV and LV centers (P=0.272), though the LV centers had wide differences for long-term outcomes (P=0.030).

Conclusions: Case volume did not have effects on short- or long-term outcomes following LT in Japan, while there were large variations in long-term outcomes among the LV centers compared to those of the HV centers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

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Journal of thoracic disease - 16(2024), 2 vom: 29. Feb., Seite 1473-1479

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chida, Masayuki [VerfasserIn]
Inoue, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Nakajima, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]
Okada, Yoshinori [VerfasserIn]
Oishi, Hisashi [VerfasserIn]
Nakajima, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Masaaki [VerfasserIn]
Yoshino, Ichiro [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Hidemi [VerfasserIn]
Nakajima, Daisuke [VerfasserIn]
Shintani, Yasushi [VerfasserIn]
Kanou, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Toyooka, Shinichi [VerfasserIn]
Miyoshi, Kentaroh [VerfasserIn]
Shiraishi, Takeshi [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Toshihiko [VerfasserIn]
Matsumoto, Keitaro [VerfasserIn]
Nagayasu, Takeshi [VerfasserIn]
Hoshikawa, Yasushi [VerfasserIn]
Matsuda, Yasushi [VerfasserIn]
Maeda, Sumiko [VerfasserIn]
Date, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case volume
Journal Article
Long-term survival
Lung transplantation (LT)
Mortality

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Date Revised 21.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/jtd-23-90

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NLM369946901