Table 1.

Clinical and demographic profile of LT patients

	All n=30	No Troughs (n=17)	Treg troughs (n=13)	p
Age	50.1±13.7	49.8±12.2	51.2±13.5	0.8
Sex
Female	13	6	7	0.1
Male	17	11	6
Race
Caucasian	27	14	13	0.5
African-American	2	2	0
Others	1	1	0
Pathology *
COPD	16	10	6	0.8
A1A	5	2	3
CF	3	1	2
IPF	5	3	2
Others	1	1	0
HLA mismatch
Class-I	2.82±1.5	2.91±1.8	2.78±1.2	0.2
Class-II	0.77±0.6	0.81±0.8	0.66±0.8	0.1
# Acute rejections	0.77±0.9	0.71±0.4	0.82±0.5	0.1
Ischemia time (min)
Right	279.0±13.3	273.1±17.5	291.0±16.8	0.08
Left	311.1±18.4	299.1±19.8	323.8±21.5	0.11
Type of Transplant
Bilateral	28	16	12	0.8
Single	2	1	1

^*COPD= Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

A1A= Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency

CF= Cystic Fibrosis

IPF= Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis