1. Switching from Heart-Lung to Double Lung Transplantations in Patients with Pre-Capillary Pulmonary Hypertension: A Monocentric Experience
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J. Le Pavec, Sacha Mussot, D. Mitilian, E. Fadel, D. Boulate, Dominique Fabre, Olaf Mercier, and M. Kriens
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lung ,business.industry ,Double Lung Transplantation ,medicine.disease ,Pulmonary hypertension ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Eisenmenger syndrome ,Medicine ,Precapillary pulmonary hypertension ,In patient ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Purpose Since 2007, extra-corporeal life support (ECLS) and national priority (NP) for organ allocation allowed to switch from heart-lung transplantation (HLT) to double lung transplantation (DLT) in most of patients with precapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH). Our objective was to determine whether switching a program of transplantation for PH from HLT to DLT provided acceptable outcomes. Methods We performed a retrospective monocentric analysis of DLT or HLT for precapillary PH between 2007 and 2016; we excluded proportioned PH in group 3 and 5 as well as Eisenmenger syndrome; patients with corrected congenital heart diseases with severe PH were included. We reported the preoperative, operative and postoperative characteristics and re-transplantation free survival up to March 2019. We performed an univariate comparison of the data between period 1 (2007 to 2011) and period 2 (2012 to 2016). Re-transplantation-free survival were compared using Log-Rank test. We performed the same analysis in the subgroup of patients transplanted with NP status. Results A total of 133 patients underwent 32 HLT and 101 DLT; 58 were performed during the period 1 and 75 during the period 2. The proportion of HLT decreased from 40% (period 1) to 12% (period 2) (p Conclusion The proportion of HLT among patients transplanted for precapillary PH was divided by more than 3 within 10 years and was associated with better re-transplantation free survival.
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- 2020