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Performance Changes Following the Revision of Organ Allocation System of Lung Transplant: Analysis of Korean Network for Organ Sharing Data.

Hye Ju YeoDo Hyung KimYun Seong KimDoo Soo JeonWoo Hyun Cho
Published in: Journal of Korean medical science (2021)
The recent revision of the lung allocation system in Korea did not change the performance of lung transplant in terms of waiting list mortality and 1-year survival. The rapid increase in the volume of waiting list between the two periods increased the waiting time, transplantation of high-urgency patients, and use of marginal lung donors.
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