Table 1.
Causes of Deaths for Adult Lung Transplant Recipients (Deaths: January 1992-June 2012)[1]
| Cause of Death | 0–30 days | 31 days-1 year |
>1–3 years | >3–5 years | >5–10 years | >10 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 2,725) | (n = 4,737) | (n = 4,315) | (n = 2,449) | (n = 2,892) | (n = 899) | |
| No. (%)a | No. (%)a | No. (%)a | No. (%)a | No. (%)a | No. (%)a | |
| Bronchiolitis | 8 (0.3) | 216 (4.6) | 1,119 (25.9) | 710 (29.0) | 734 (25.4) | 188 (20.9) |
| Acute rejection | 94 (3.4) | 85 (1.8) | 63 (1.5) | 16 (0.7) | 17 (0.6) | 2 (0.2) |
| Malignancy | ||||||
| Lymphoma | 1 (0.0) | 110 (2.3) | 78 (1.8) | 36 (1.5) | 56 (1.9) | 31 (3.4) |
| Non-lymphoma | 5 (0.2) | 134 (2.8) | 329 (7.6) | 266 (10.9) | 379 (13.1) | 113 (12.6) |
| Infection | ||||||
| CMV | 0 | 112 (2.4) | 42 (1.0) | 7 (0.3) | 4 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) |
| Non-CMV | 535 (19.6) | 1,687 (35.6) | 971 (22.5) | 471 (19.2) | 523 (18.1) | 154 (17.1) |
| Graft failure | 672 (24.7) | 790 (16.7) | 807 (18.7) | 440 (18.0) | 515 (17.8) | 156 (17.4) |
| Cardiovascular | 298 (10.9) | 228 (4.8) | 179 (4.1) | 120 (4.9) | 148 (5.1) | 58 (6.5) |
| Technical | 301 (11.0) | 162 (3.4) | 38 (0.9) | 14 (0.6) | 24 (0.8) | 8 (0.9) |
| Other | 811 (29.8) | 1,213 (25.6) | 689 (16.0) | 369 (15.1) | 492 (17.0) | 188 (20.9) |
Reprinted from The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Vol 32, Issue 10, Roger D. Yusen, Jason D. Christie, Leah B. Edwards, Anna Y. Kucheryavaya, Christian Benden, Anne I. Dipchand, Fabienne Dobbels, Richard Kirk, Lars H. Lund, Axel 0. Rahmel, Josef Stehlik, The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Thirtieth Adult Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Report—2013; Focus Theme: Age, Page 971, Copyright © 2013 with permission from Elsevier.