Table 1. Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of the Patients.

	Non-induction group (n=195)	Induction group (n=41)	p value
Male sex	116 (59.5)	32 (78.0)	0.040
Age (yr)	52.7±12.5	57.5±9.3	0.006
BMI	20.8±3.7	22.7±4.8	0.017
Diagnosis			0.065
COPD and emphysema	6 (3.1)	4 (9.8)
Interstitial lung disease	142 (72.8)	32 (78.0)
Bronchiectasis	13 (6.7)	3 (7.3)
Others	34 (17.4)	2 (4.9)
Comorbidities
Diabetes mellitus	26 (13.3)	11 (26.8)	0.054
Hypertension	15 (7.7)	7 (17.1)	0.075
Chronic renal disease	19 (9.7)	4 (9.8)	1.000
Malignancies	29 (14.9)	1 (2.4)	0.056
Baseline creatinine levels (mg/dL)	0.65±0.22	0.53±0.20	0.003
Time on waiting list (days)	82.0 [24.0;171.0]	121.0 [29.0;244.0]	0.102
Pretransplantational admission	93 (47.7)	39 (95.1)	<0.001
Pretransplantational admission duration (days)	0.0 [0.0;2.0]	32.0 [23.0;72.0]	<0.001
Pretransplantational ICU care	66 (33.8)	37 (90.2)	<0.001
Pretransplantational ICU care duration (days)	0.0 [0.0;8.0]	16 [11.0;28.0]	<0.001
Pretransplantational ventilator care	60 (30.8)	37 (90.2)	<0.001
Pretransplantational ventilator care duration (days)	0.0 [0.0;5.5]	14.0 [2.0;21.0]	<0.001
Pretransplantational ECMO support	39 (20.0)	36 (87.8)	<0.001
Pretransplantational ECMO support duration (days)	0.0 [0.0;0.0]	12.0 [6.0;22.0]	<0.001

BMI, body mass index; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; ICU, intensive care unit.

Data are presented as mean±standard deviation or n (%).