Impact of perioperative airway pathogens on living-donor lobar lung transplantation outcomes.

Hiromi OdaSatona TanakaToyofumi F Chen-YoshikawaYuki MorimuraYoshito YamadaYojiro YutakaDaisuke NakajimaMasatsugu HamajiAkihiro OhsumiToshi MenjuMiki NagaoHiroshi Date

Published in: Surgery today (2023)

The airways of the living-donor grafts were microbiologically sterile. PO positivity in the airway early after transplantation negatively impacted long-term outcomes.

Keyphrases

cystic fibrosis
cardiac surgery
patients undergoing
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
stem cells
type diabetes
acute kidney injury
bone marrow
skeletal muscle
insulin resistance
weight loss