Lung Allocation System: Improving Patient Access with Kenneth McCurry, MD & Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP
Lungcast2 Apr 2024

Lung Allocation System: Improving Patient Access with Kenneth McCurry, MD & Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP

0:16 Intro
2:28 Recent modifications to the lung allocation score
5:11 Monitoring chronic graft rejection
9:23 The rising use of ex vivo lung perfusion
16:17 The presence of post-COVID patients on the lung transplant waitlist
21:01 Impact of long Covid on transplant rehabilitation
22:51 Double lung transplant in bilateral lung cancer—what’s the future?
26:52 Effect of LAS on lung transplant survival racial disparity
31:05 What lies ahead in the practice of lung transplantation
35:00 Outro

Cleveland Clinic’s Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP, rejoins the broadcast, along with her colleague Kenneth McCurry, MD to discuss optimization of the lung allocation system to continue reducing waitlist times and patient mortality.

It includes commentary on how recent changes to scoring protocols are expected to impact ongoing disparities related to race and socioeconomic status. They additionally talk about the role of transplantation in patients who have severely damaged lungs resulting from COVID-19 infection, an update since our April 2021 conversation.

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