… Lung transplantation offers patients with end-stage lung … lungs continue to be major
problems facing lung transplant … single-lung transplants conducted for pulmonary fibrosis. Three …

… develop fibrotic lung disease for which lung transplantation … matrix organization of end-stage
lung tissue from patients with … lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). …

… Pulmonary hypertension is common in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients awaiting
lung transplant, but the elevations in mean pulmonary arterial pressure are moderate. Lung …

… younger patients who received transplants for cystic fibrosis using lungs from donors aged
… -stage disease. In heart transplant recipients, surgical resection of early-stage lung cancer is …

… Importantly, the higher mortality rate was observed for patients with end-stage lung disease
due to pulmonary fibrosis. For this reason, the US organ allocation system (United Network …

… from the airways of end stage CF lung transplant candidates. CF … lung transplantation.
However, the overall rates of invasive disease are low and the increased risk for post-transplant …

… cystic fibrosis and 20% with COPD and Other lung diseases. … transplant recipients, but 66%
of the patients on the lung trans… of patients awaiting lung transplantation are at particular risk …

… the Lung Allocation Score in 2005, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) emerged as the most
common indication for lung transplantation (… by end-stage disease, lung transplantation (LT) …

… lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis during the period from 1992 through 2002. Actuarial
survival for lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis … dissimilar end-stage lung diseases, whereas …

… was examined in 78 consecutive end-stage lung disease patients assessed for lung
transplantation: emphysema, 21; cystic fibrosis, 5; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 26; scleroderma, 10…