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. 2017 Jul 18;17:102. doi: 10.1186/s12890-017-0446-y

Table 1.

demographic and clinical features of the patients enrolled in this study

N° of patients = 137
Mean age at Tx (years ± SD) 46.1 ± 12.86
Sex (M:F) 91:46
Lenght of post-Tx follow-up (months/range, median) 105.9 / 6.7–310.5
Tx Indications
 Emphysema / Alpha1 antitrypsin Deficiency 27
 Primary graft disfunction 4
 Bronchiectasis / Cystic Fibrosis 26
 Interstitial lung disease 52
 Pulmonary hypertension / Ebstein’s disease/Eisenmenger Syndrome / Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome 25
 Rare pulmonary conditions 3
Type of Tx
 Single lung Tx 46
 Double lung Tx 83
 Heart and Lung Tx 8
Immunosuppression therapy
 Cyclosporine 23
 Tacrolimus 119
 Azathioprine 15
 Mycophenolate mofetil 88
 Rapamycin 37
 Prednisone 137
 Extracorporeal photopheresis (ever) 39
 Azitromycin (ever) 98
Total of determination = 1943
 Stable 796
 CLAD 1147
 BOS 838
 RAS 309
 BOS 0p 320
 CLAD 1 412
 CLAD 2 169
 CLAD 3 246

CLAD chronic lung allograft dysfunction, BOS bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, RAS restrictive allograft syndrome. BOS 0p according to published guidelines [6, 3032] CLAD 1: includes both BOS1 and RAS patients with FEV1 80–65% + FVC < 80%; CLAD 2: includes both BOS2 and RAS patients with FEV1 64–50% + FVC < 80%; CLAD 3: includes both BOS3 and RAS patients with FEV1 < 50% + FVC < 80%