The prognostic nutritional index is correlated negatively with the lung allocation score and predicts survival after both cadaveric and living-donor lobar lung transplantation.
Haruchika YamamotoSeiichiro SugimotoJunichi SohToshio ShiotaniKentaroh MiyoshiShinji OtaniMikio OkazakiMasaomi YamaneShinichi ToyookaPublished in: Surgery today (2021)
Preoperative nutritional evaluations using the PNI can assist with the assessment of disease severity in LT recipients and may predict survival after both CLT and LDLLT.