Double-Lung Transplantation Can Be Safely Performed Using Donors With Heavy Smoking History Sharven Taghavi, MD, MPH, Senthil Jayarajan, MD, Eugene Komaroff, PhD, Tetsuya Horai, MD, Stacey Brann, MD, Francis Cordova, MD, Gerard Criner, MD, T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA, Yoshiya Toyoda, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 95, Issue 6, Pages 1912-1918 (June 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.079 Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier curve shows survival of double-lung transplant patients receiving donor lungs from heavy-smoking donors (dashed line) compared with those receiving lungs from donors who are non-heavy-smoking donors (solid line). (N = no; Y = yes.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 1912-1918DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.079) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions