ArticleSurgery today2021
The prognostic nutritional index is correlated negatively with the lung allocation score and predicts survival after both cadaveric and living-donor lobar lung transplantation.
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- Clinical impact of the prognostic nutritional index at listing and immediately before surgery in lung transplantation.Surgery today · 2026Article
- Significance of geriatric nutritional risk index in predicting lung-transplant waiting list mortality of patients with interstitial lung disease regardless of percentage forced vital capacity.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2026Article
- Impact of prognostic nutritional index on postoperative outcome of acute empyema.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Musculo-Immuno-Nutritional Score as a Prognostic Marker in Patients with Interstitial Pneumonia Awaiting Lung Transplantation.Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia · 2025Article
- The Path Forward: A Review on Enhanced Recovery After Cardiothoracic Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Review
- Usefulness of Preoperative Prognostic Nutritional Index in Secondary Spontaneous Pneumothorax.Annals of thoracic surgery short reports · 2024Article
- Restrictive allograft dysfunction rather than bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome had a major impact on the overall survival after living-donor lobar lung transplantation.Surgery today · 2024Article
- The impact of prognostic nutrition index on the waitlist mortality of lung transplantation.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2023Article
- Relationship between Preoperative Nutritional Status and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The lung allocation score and other available models lack predictive accuracy for post-lung transplant survival.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2022Article
- Evaluation of nutritional status in lung transplant recipients and its correlation with post-transplant short-term prognosis: a retrospective study.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe prognostic nutritional index (PNI), calculated based on the serum albumin levels and the total lymphocyte count, has been identified as a predictor of clinical outcomes in various fields of surgery. In this study, we investigated the relationship between the PNI and the lung allocation score (LAS) as well as the impact of the PNI on the outcomes of both cadaveric lung transplantation (CLT) and living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT).
methodsWe reviewed retrospective data for 127 recipients of lung transplantation (LT), including 71 recipients of CLT and 56 recipients of LDLLT.
resultsThe PNI was correlated significantly and negatively with the LAS (r = - 0.40, P = 0.0000037). Multivariate analysis revealed that age (P = 0.00093), BMI (P = 0.00087), and PNI (P = 0.0046) were independent prognostic factors of a worse outcome after LT. In a subgroup analysis, survival after both CLT (P = 0.015) and LDLLT (P = 0.041) was significantly worse in the low PNI group than in the high PNI group.
conclusionPreoperative 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.
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