Mortality for sarcoidosis patients on the transplant wait list in the Lung Allocation Score era: Experience from a high volume center

Sarcoidosis progresses to end stage fibrotic lung disease in 10% of patients and may necessitate lung transplantation. Organ allocation is currently determined by the Lung Allocation Score (LAS), but its performance in a sarcoidosis population has not been evaluated.

Source: Respiratory Medicine - September 6, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Andrew J. Gangemi, Catherine Myers, Matthew Zheng, James Brown, Marianne Butler-LeBair, Francis Cordova, Nathaniel Marchetti, Gerard J. Criner, Rohit Gupta, A. James Mamary Source Type: research