Additionally, sLTx recipients were less likely to require prolonged (>48 hours) ventilator support and showed a trend toward a lower rate of post-transplant renal failure and shorter hospital stays. 7 With this conflicting data arising from the UNOS Thoracic Transplant database, a meta-analysis was performed by Li et al, who integrated 16 studies including 17,872 patients with pulmonary fibrosis (10,215 sLTx, 7,657 dLTx).
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