Introduction Patients with acute respiratory failure requiring respiratory support with invasive
mechanical ventilation while awaiting lung transplantation are at a high risk of death …

Survival in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) has improved dramatically over the past 30 to 40
years, with mean survival now approximately 40 years. Nonetheless, progressive respiratory …

OBJECTIVE: Acute clinical deterioration preceding death is a common observation in
patients with advanced interstitial lung disease and secondary pulmonary hypertension …

Objectives Extracorporeal life support is increasingly used to bridge deteriorating candidates
to lung transplantation. Nevertheless, only few systematic reports with a limited number of …

Rationale: Obesity and underweight are contraindications to lung transplantation based on
their associations with mortality in studies performed before implementation of the lung …

Background Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is being increasingly used as a
bridge to lung transplantation. Small, single-institution series have described increased …

Background The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a bridge to lung
transplant (LTX) is still being debated. Methods We performed a retrospective two-center …

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrotic lung disease characterized by progressive
loss of lung function and poor prognosis. The so-called acute exacerbation of IPF (AE-IPF) …

Background Mycobacterium abscessus in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is considered a
contraindication to lung transplantation. We examine the post‐transplant outcomes of CF …

Objective The prognosis of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or fibrosing idiopathic
nonspecific interstitial pneumonia undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) for acute …