Brazilian initial experience with lung transplantation due to irreversible lung fibrosis post-COVID-19 in a national reference center: a cohort study.
Flávio Pola Dos ReisLucas Matos FernandesLuis Gustavo AbdallaSilvia Vidal CamposPriscila Cilene Leon Bueno de CamargoSamuel Lucas Dos SantosIvana Teixeira de AguiarJuliana Patricia PiresAndre Nathan CostaRafael Medeiros CarraroRicardo Henrique de Oliveira Braga TeixeiraPaulo Manuel Pêgo FernandesPublished in: Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina (2021)
LTx is feasible among these complex patients. Survival over the first 30 days was 100%, and this favors surgical feasibility. Nonetheless, these were critically ill patients.