Due to the limited donor availability, a strategy of lungtransplantation from older donors has been developed to increase the donorpool. Since 2004 in our organization donors over 60 years are considered outof protocol.The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a differencein mortality rates by lung-donor age in order to validate the use of lung donors(LD)≥60 yy .

Impact of donor age on lung transplantation recipients: a multicenter cohort study / E. Benazzi, A. Cannavò, L. Rosso, M. Cattaneo, S. Passamonti, L. Morlacchi, M. Schiavon, F. Rea, C. Pellegrini, F. Meloni, P. Parigi, M. Colledan, G. Ziglio, M. Cardillo. - In: TRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL. - ISSN 0934-0874. - 32:suppl. 2(2019), pp. 249-249. ((Intervento presentato al 19. convegno ESOT Congress tenutosi a Copenhagen nel 2019.

Impact of donor age on lung transplantation recipients: a multicenter cohort study

L. Rosso;M. Cattaneo;
2019

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Due to the limited donor availability, a strategy of lungtransplantation from older donors has been developed to increase the donorpool. Since 2004 in our organization donors over 60 years are considered outof protocol.The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a differencein mortality rates by lung-donor age in order to validate the use of lung donors(LD)≥60 yy .
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2019
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