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ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2020

Lung transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Safely navigating the new "normal".

Samantha E Halpern, Danae G Olaso, Madison K Krischak, John M Reynolds, John C Haney, Jacob A Klapper, Matthew G Hartwig

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Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Same-teams versus different-teams for long distance lung procurement: A cost analysis.The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2023
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  4. Editorial: COVID-19 immunology and organ transplantation.Current opinion in organ transplantation · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Samantha E HalpernSchool of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7316-1989
Danae G OlasoSchool of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Madison K KrischakSchool of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
John M ReynoldsDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
John C HaneyDivision of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Jacob A KlapperDivision of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Matthew G HartwigDivision of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Duke Medical Center · USDuke University · US

Funding

Duke Clinical Translational Science InstitutePfizer Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the United States, an overall national decline in organ transplants has accompanied the substantial burden of COVID-19. Amidst significant regional variations in COVID-19, lung transplantation (LTx) remains a critical life-saving operation. Our LTx practice during the early pandemic may provide a blueprint for managing LTx in an era of continued community prevalence. Patients who underwent LTx at our institution between March 1 and May 20, 2020 were included. Recipient, operative, and donor characteristics were compared to those from our program in 2019, and COVID-19 testing practices were evaluated for March, April, and May to understand how our practice adapted to the pandemic. Our program performed 36 LTx, 33% more than the same period in 2019. Recipient, operative, and donor characteristics during COVID-19 were similar to those in 2019. By April 1, all donors and recipients underwent pretransplant COVID-19 testing, all returning negative results. To date, no recipients have developed posttransplant COVID-19. At our institution, pretransplant COVID-19 testing, use of local donor lungs, and avoidance of donors from areas of increased community penetration supported a safe and effective LTx practice during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Continued follow-up is required to ensure the long-term safety of these newly transplanted patients.

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PandemicsSARS-CoV-2Transplant RecipientsAgedComorbidityCOVID-19FemaleHumansLung TransplantationMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesTissue DonorsUnited States

Identifiers

PMID32894641
PMCPMC9800716
OpenAlexW3083666361

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