Disturbed sleep is associated with worse patient-reported outcomes and chronic lung allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation.
Aric A PratherYing GaoLegna BetancourtRose C KordahlAnya SriramChiung-Yu HuangSteven R HaysJasleen KukrejaDaniel R CalabreseAida VenadoJohn R GreenlandJonathan Paul SingerPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2023)
Poor self-reported sleep after lung transplant appears to be a novel predictor of a range of key patient reported outcomes, physical frailty, CLAD, and death. Further research investigating the prevalence and changes in sleep during transplant is warranted as this data may inform intervention strategies to improve sleep and lung transplant outcomes.