Awareness of bias in lung transplant registry analyses

The ideal lung transplantation procedure for patients with end-stage lung disease complicated by secondary pulmonary hypertension is currently unknown. Nasir and colleagues deserve credit for their study attempting to shed light on this controversial topic.1 They performed a contemporary, retrospective registry analysis, selecting adult recipients with obstructive or restrictive etiologies that underwent isolated lung transplantation between May 2005 and June 2015, with 12,393 recipients meeting inclusion criteria.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Case Anecdotes, Comments and Opinions Source Type: research