743300login-checkCleveland Clinic Researchers Develop New Model for Prioritizing Lung Transplant Candidates |
Study shows new approach could more accurately reflect which patients urgently need a transplant and reduce deaths
A team from Cleveland Clinic has developed a new model for prioritizing patients waiting for a lung transplant, aimed at improving outcomes and reducing deaths among those in need of donor lungs. The new method offers an improved strategy for organ allocation by taking into account how the time a patient has spent on the waiting list could impact the severity of their disease and the urgency of their need for a transplant.
The results of a study looking at this new method were published today in The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Read more from the Cleveland Clinic.
743300login-checkCleveland Clinic Researchers Develop New Model for Prioritizing Lung Transplant Candidates |