Researchers shed new light on double-lung transplants
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 22:31
in Health & Medicine
In the largest retrospective study to date using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing database for adult double-lung transplants, researchers have shown that there is no statistically significant difference between rejection and mortality rates among double-lung transplant recipients when their transplanted organs came from donors whose blood type was identical or compatible to their own.