Table 1.

Patients who discontinued pirfenidone more than 1 day prior to transplantation

Variable	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4
Age, years	59	68	67	69
Number of days before LTx pirfenidone was stopped	6	15	16	21
Pirfenidone dose at time of discontinuation	801 mg PO TID	801 mg PO TID	801 mg PO TID	801 mg PO TID
Duration of pirfenidone treatment	30-90 days	> 90 days	30-90 days	< 30 days
Reason for stopping pirfenidone	VV ECMO BTT with feeding tube	ECMO BTT with feeding tube	Cost	Adverse GI effects
Prednisone dose at LTx	10 mg PO daily	10 mg PO daily	20 mg PO daily	None

Abbreviations: BTT bridge to transplantation, GI gastrointestinal, LTx lung transplantation, PO per oral, TID ter in die (3 times per day), VV ECMO venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation