658920login-checkShort wait times, long-term survival in young children receiving lung transplant |
By Isabella Hornick
Children aged younger than 3 years receiving a lung transplant have different diagnoses, shorter wait times and comparable long-term survival to older patients, according to a study published inAnnals of the American Thoracic Society.
“Carefully selected infants and young children with end-stage lung and pulmonary vascular disease are appropriate candidates for lung transplantation and are likely underserved by current clinical practice,” Ernestina Melicoff, MD, assistant professor in the section of pediatric pulmonology at Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of the lung transplant program at Texas Children’s Hospital, and colleagues wrote. Read more in Healio.
658920login-checkShort wait times, long-term survival in young children receiving lung transplant |