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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Oct 7;163(3):853–860.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.09.097

Table 1.

Recipient baseline characteristics stratified by survival

Variable <1 year survival 1–10 year survival >10 year survival p-value
(n=964) (n=2,843) (n=1,364)
Male sex 590 (61.2%) 1,660 (58.4%) 777 (57.0%) 0.120
Age (years, median, IQR) 59 (51–64) 58 (49–63) 55 (45–61) <0.001
BMI (kg/m2, median, IQR) 25.6 (21.6–28.7) 25.3 (21.5–28.5) 24.7 (20.7–28.1) 0.001
Donor-recipient pTLC ratio (median, IQR) 1.02 (0.89–1.16) 1.03 (0.91–1.17) 1.03 (0.91–1.16) 0.133
Race/Ethnicity 0.719
 White 820 (85.1%) 2,416 (85.0%) 1,162 (85.2%)
 Black 74 (7.7%) 244 (8.6%) 120 (8.8%)
 Hispanic 47 (4.9%) 131 (4.6%) 62 (4.5%)
 Other 23 (2.4%) 52 (1.8%) 20 (1.5%)
Diabetes 170 (17.7%) 475 (16.7%) 221 (16.2%) 0.636
Malignancy 68 (7.3%) 168 (6.0%) 59 (4.5%) 0.015
Diagnosis group <0.001
 A 325 (33.7%) 1,124 (39.5%) 500 (36.7%)
 B 34 (3.5%) 75 (2.6%) 39 (2.9%)
 C 100 (10.4%) 347 (12.2%) 222 (16.3%)
 D 505 (52.4%) 1,297 (45.6%) 603 (44.2%)
Creatinine (mg/dL, median, IQR) 0.9 (0.7–1.1) 0.8 (0.7–1.0) 0.8 (0.7–1.0) <0.001
Total bilirubin (mg/dL, median, IQR) 0.5 (0.3–0.8) 0.5 (0.3–0.7) 0.5 (0.3–0.7) <0.001
Pre-transplant status <0.001
 Intensive care unit 157 (16.3%) 157 (5.5%) 63 (4.6%)
 Hospitalized (non-ICU) 89 (9.2%) 198 (7.0%) 86 (6.3%)
 Not hospitalized 718 (74.5%) 2,488 (87.5%) 1,215 (89.1%)
IV antibiotics in two weeks before transplant 115 (12.5%) 268 (9.8%) 153 (11.6%) 0.039
Ventilator support at transplant 89 (9.2%) 112 (3.9%) 51 (3.7%) <0.001
ECMO support at transplant 23 (2.4%) 11 (0.4%) 6 (0.4%) <0.001
Lung allocation score (LAS, median, IQR) 39.3 (34.5–49.0) 37.7 (33.7–44.4) 37.7 (33.8–45.0) <0.001
Days on waitlist (median, IQR) 81(26–263) 80 (24–253) 87 (25–293) 0.349
Single lung transplant 375 (38.9%) 1,210 (42.6%) 352 (25.8%) <0.001
HLA match 0.624
 0 antigen match 177 (22.0%) 541 (22.7%) 233 (20.2%)
 1 antigen match 306 (38.0%) 876 (36.7%) 441 (38.2%)
 2 antigen match 202 (25.1%) 631 (26.5%) 301 (26.1%)
 3+ antigen match 120 (14.9%) 337 (14.1%) 180 (15.6%)
Center annual lung transplant volume (median, IQR) 28 (17–45) 30 (22–45) 30 (22–48) <0.001

IQR, interquartile range; BMI, body mass index; pTLC, predicted total lung capacity; ICU, intensive care unit; ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; HLA, human leukocyte antigen