The International Thoracic Organ Transplant Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Thirty-eighth adult lung transplantation report — 2021; Focus on recipient characteristics
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Data collection, conventions and statistical methods
National and multinational transplant collectives and individual transplant centers submitted data to the ISHLT International TTX Registry. Since the Registry's inception, 481 heart transplant centers, 260 lung transplant centers, and 184 centers that perform combined heart–lung transplants have reported data to the ISHLT TTX Registry.2, 8, 9, 10 This report references specific online e-slides when particular data are discussed but not shown due to space limitations; e-slide numbers refer to
Conclusions
In this 2021 ISHLT TTX Registry Report, we focused on recipient trends over time. We observed many important changes over the years, reflecting changing practice, and demographics worldwide. Lung transplant recipients are ageing, are more likely to be transplanted for fibrosing lung disease, have an increasing BMI, are much more likely to have a history of diabetes mellitus, are more likely to be sensitized, less likely to be CMV seropositive, and more likely to have a history of malignancy.
Disclosure statement
Daniel C. Chambers received travel support from Astellas Pharma, Inc, and served as a consultant and speaker for Roche Ltd; Kiran K. Khush serves as a consultant and speaker for CareDx, Inc; Josef Stehlik serves as a consultant for Medtronic, receives research funding from Natera and receives funding from ISHLT; Michael Perch receives research funding from Roche, travel support from Boeringer-Ingelheim, and is a speaker for Mallinckrodt, Glaxo Smith Kline, and Astra-Zeneca; Wida S. Cherikh,
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Ms. Lyna Cherikh, United Network of Organ Sharing Research Summer Intern, for her assistance with preparing the figures/table for the manuscript, and for reviewing the manuscript.
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