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ArticleTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation2026

What Is Possible for Patients After Lung Transplantation? The Highest Reported Altitude Achieved by a Lung Transplant Recipient Without Supplemental Oxygen - Climbing Mount Aconcagua (6.961m).

Jakob Mühlbacher, Alexis Slama, Konrad Hoetzenecker, Christina Jelly, Holger Flick, Fedja Dzubur, Matthias P Hilty, Paul Fellinger, Rodrigo Duplessis, Lukas Furtenbach and 4 more

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Article in Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Living Life to the Fullest After Organ Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Jakob MühlbacherDepartment of Surgery, Division of Visceral Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Alexis SlamaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Comprehensive Center for Chest Diseases, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, United States.
Konrad HoetzeneckerVanderbilt Lung Transplant, Vanderbilt Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
Christina JellyVanderbilt Lung Transplant, Vanderbilt Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
Holger FlickClinical Department of Pulmonology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Fedja DzuburClinic for Respiratory Diseases Jordanovac, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Matthias P HiltyInstitute of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Paul FellingerDepartment of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Rodrigo DuplessisExtreme Medicine, Medical Service of Aconcagua Provincial Park, Mendoza, Argentina.
Lukas FurtenbachFurtenbach Adventures, Innsbruck, Austria.
Ida Valerie WedenigDepartment of Surgery, Division of Visceral Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Wilfried WisserDepartment of Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Clemens AignerDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Comprehensive Center for Chest Diseases, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, United States.
Peter JakschDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Comprehensive Center for Chest Diseases, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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extreme environmentshigh altitudehypoxialung transplantphysical activity

Identifiers

PMID42222139
PMCPMC13218293

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