{"id":6425,"date":"2023-03-21T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:04:47","slug":"las-system-may-not-reflect-risks-for-lung-transplant-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/03\/21\/las-system-may-not-reflect-risks-for-lung-transplant-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"LAS system may not reflect risks for lung transplant patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6425\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>Stratifying sarcoidosis by PH doesn&#8217;t fully show how it confers higher mortality risk<\/em><br><br>By Marisa Wexler, MS<br>The Lung Allocation Score (LAS) system, which is used to prioritize patients awaiting lung transplant, may not accurately reflect disease severity risks for people with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sarcoidosisnews.com\/pulmonary-sarcoidosis\/\">pulmonary sarcoidosis<\/a>, a new study reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Results showed that several factors accounted for in the LAS remain significant predictors of mortality for patients on the transplant wait list. This \u201csuggests that the LAS system could be further optimized to lessen the disparity in candidate waitlist mortality,\u201d the researchers wrote in the study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0041134523000118\">Lung Transplantation Waitlist Mortality Among Sarcoidosis Patients by Lung Allocation Score Grouping<\/a>,\u201d which was published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/transplantation-proceedings\"><em>Transplantation Proceedings<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/sarcoidosisnews.com\/news\/risk-not-shown-las-sarcodoisis-patients-awaiting-lung-transplant\/\">Read the full article<\/a> in Sarcoidosis News.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6425\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Stratifying sarcoidosis by PH doesn&#8217;t fully show how it confers higher mortality risk By Marisa Wexler, MSThe Lung Allocation Score (LAS) system, which is used to prioritize patients awaiting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/03\/21\/las-system-may-not-reflect-risks-for-lung-transplant-patients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LAS system may not reflect risks for lung transplant patients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8],"tags":[1760],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"1","views":"1223","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}