Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Divisions of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, Virginia; International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, Dallas, Texas.
J Heart Lung Transplant. 2019 Jan;38(1):5-16. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2018.09.016. Epub 2018 Sep 25.
Lung transplant (LTx) recipients have low long-term survival and a high incidence of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). However, few long-term, multicenter, and precise estimates of BOS-free survival (a composite outcome of death or BOS) incidence exist.
This retrospective cohort study of primary LTx recipients (1994-2011) reported to the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Thoracic Transplant Registry assessed outcomes through 2012. For the composite primary outcome of BOS-free survival, we used Kaplan-Meier survival and Cox proportional hazards regression, censoring for loss to follow-up, end of study, and re-LTx. Although standard Thoracic Transplant Registry analyses censor at the last consecutive annual complete BOS status report, our analyses allowed for partially missing BOS data.
Due to BOS reporting standards, 99.1% of the cohort received LTx in North America. During 79,896 person-years of follow-up, single LTx (6,599 of 15,268 [43%]) and bilateral LTx (8,699 of 15,268 [57%]) recipients had a median BOS-free survival of 3.16 years (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.99-3.30 years) and 3.58 years (95% CI, 3.53-3.72 years), respectively. Almost 90% of the single and bilateral LTx recipients developed the composite outcome within 10 years of transplantation. Standard Registry analyses "overestimated" median BOS-free survival by 0.42 years and "underestimated" the median survival after BOS by about a half-year for both single and bilateral LTx (p < 0.05).
Most LTx recipients die or develop BOS within 4 years, and very few remain alive and free from BOS at 10 years post-LTx. Less inclusive Thoracic Transplant Registry analytic methods tend to overestimate BOS-free survival. The Registry would benefit from improved international reporting of BOS and other chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) events.
肺移植(LTx)受者的长期生存率较低,且发生细支气管闭塞性综合征(BOS)的概率较高。然而,目前关于 BOS 无生存(死亡或 BOS 的复合结局)的长期、多中心和精确估计数据较少。
本研究回顾性分析了国际心肺移植协会胸外科移植登记处(1994-2011 年)报告的原发性 LTx 受者,截至 2012 年评估其结果。对于 BOS 无生存的复合主要结局,我们使用 Kaplan-Meier 生存和 Cox 比例风险回归,对随访丢失、研究结束和再次 LTx 进行删失。尽管标准的胸外科移植登记处分析在最后一次连续完整的 BOS 状态报告时进行删失,但我们的分析允许部分缺失 BOS 数据。
由于 BOS 报告标准,该队列中的 99.1%的受者在美国接受 LTx。在 79896 人年的随访期间,单肺 LTx(15268 例中的 6599 例[43%])和双肺 LTx(15268 例中的 8699 例[57%])受者的中位 BOS 无生存时间分别为 3.16 年(95%置信区间[CI],2.99-3.30 年)和 3.58 年(95% CI,3.53-3.72 年)。几乎 90%的单肺和双肺 LTx 受者在移植后 10 年内发生了复合结局。标准登记处分析“高估”了单肺和双肺 LTx 的中位 BOS 无生存时间,分别高估了 0.42 年和大约半年(p<0.05)。
大多数 LTx 受者在 4 年内死亡或发生 BOS,很少有受者在 LTx 后 10 年内仍然存活且无 BOS。不那么全面的胸外科移植登记处分析方法往往会高估 BOS 无生存时间。登记处将受益于改善 BOS 和其他慢性肺移植物功能障碍(CLAD)事件的国际报告。