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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2019 Aug 8;38(10):1042–1055. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2019.08.001

Table 3.

Mean Donor-Recipient Height Difference (cm) by Diagnosis Category and Procedure Type (Transplants: January 2005–June 2018)

Year A1ATD/COPD
IIP/ILD-not IIP
CF
Other
All
Bilateral Single Bilateral Single Bilateral Single Bilateral Single Bilateral Single

2005 4.3 6.6 −1.2   1.2 3.7   5.2 2.0   2.5 2.4 3.8
2006 5.2 5.7 −0.4   0.3 3.0   7.1 1.3   2.0 2.6 2.9
2007 5.0 5.3 −1.9 −0.5 3.1 13.8 1.8   0.6 2.2 1.8
2008 5.2 7.6 −2.8   0.1 3.8   5.3 1.1   1.4 1.9 3.1
2009 4.7 6.6 −2.1 −0.9 4.3 14.0 1.3   0.2 2.1 1.8
2010 5.7 6.1 −2.4 −1.4 4.0   6.5 0.9   1.5 2.1 1.3
2011 4.9 6.6 −2.0 −1.8 4.0   9.9 1.4   1.1 2.1 1.1
2012 5.1 7.4 −2.4 −1.3 4.4   6.4 1.0   0.6 1.8 1.4
2013 5.0 6.2 −1.8 −0.8 4.6 −3.7 1.2   0.9 2.0 1.2
2014 4.9 6.7 −2.2 −0.9 4.7   6.3 1.1 −1.0 1.6 0.8
2015 4.7 5.7 −2.3 −0.2 3.5 −0.7 1.3   2.9 1.5 1.7
2016 5.3 5.6 −1.5 −0.6 5.2 0.7   1.8 2.0 1.3
2017 5.4 8.7 −1.6   0.8 4.9 1.2   1.7 2.0 3.1
2018 5.7 8.0 −2.2 −0.3 4.7 2.1 −0.2 1.7 2.0
Mean height difference 5.1 6.6 −1.9 −0.5 4.1   6.4 1.3   1.1 2.0 2.0

Abbreviations: A1ATD, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency; CF, cystic fibrosis; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; IIP, idiopathic interstitial pneumonia; ILD-not IIP, interstitial lung disease-not idiopathic interstitial pneumonia