The Houston Methodist lung transplant risk model - a validated tool for pre-transplant risk assessment.

CONCLUSIONS: Using only recipient data collected at the time of pre-listing evaluation, our simple scoring system has good discrimination power and can be a practical tool in the assessment and selection of potential lung transplant recipients.
PMID: 31082356 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - May 9, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Chan EY, Nguyen DT, Kaleekal TS, Goodarzi A, Graviss EA, Gaber AO, Houston Methodist Lung Outcomes Group Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research