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Extended donor lungs: eleven years experience in a consecutive series☆

2005; Oxford University Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.01.019

1873-734X

Didier Lardinois, M. Banysch, Stephan Korom, Sven Hillinger, Valentin Rousson, Annette Boehler, Rudolf Speich, Walter Weder,

Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments

The aim of this study was to delineate the profile of extended donor lungs in comparison to ideal donor lungs and to analyse their outcome. Particular attention was given to donor lungs with a low PaO(2) ( 55 years, smoking >20 pack-years, PaO(2) before harvesting <300mmHg, pathologic chest X-ray, and purulent secretion at bronchoscopy. A comparison between recipients from ideal and from extended donor lungs was performed with respect to the median duration of mechanical ventilation, the median length of stay at the intensive care unit, postoperative complications, the 30-day and the 1-year survival, and the 6-month follow-up spirometry.Sixty-three (42.6%) donor lungs were considered extended and 20 (31.7%) met more than one criteria. Outcome comparison between recipients from ideal (I) and extended (II) donor lungs did not statistically differ in postoperative complications (18.8% (I) vs. 26.9% (II), P=0.32), mean duration of mechanical ventilation (d) (4.4+/-2.7 (I) vs. 2.6+/-2.1 (II), P=0.2), mean length of stay at the ICU (d) (11.5+/-8.8 (I) vs. 9.2+/-6.9 (II), P=0.4), 6-month pulmonary function (FEV1=83+/-23% of the predicted value (I) vs. 82+/-18% (II), P=0.81), 30-day survival (90.6% (I) vs. 93.7% (II), P=0.56), 1-year survival (83.5% (I) vs. 81% (II), P=0.83). Thirty-day survival was also comparable even in recipients from donor lungs with PaO(2)<250mmHg (n=8) (90.6% (I) vs. 87.5%, P=0.57). The number of extended criteria had no impact on the outcome. The combination of PaO(2)<300mmHg with purulent secretion at bronchoscopy seemed to influence the early outcome of recipients from extended donor lungs negatively.Our results suggest that the use of selected extended donor lungs does not compromise the outcome after transplantation. PaO(2) <250mmHg before harvesting of the lungs is not an absolute contra-indication for transplantation.