Lung size for transplants

[John]

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130801095507.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medicine%2Flung_disease+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Health+%26+Medicine+News+--+Lung+Disease%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

[Blossom/Jackie W.]

Thanks John. Any thoughts on it?

I saw that this morning as well and I have to say I think that it's great news for Lung Tx folks.... especially the life expectancy ratio in the first year at the very least.

[John]

Jackie I would think a 30% increase in survival is huge !

[jim]

Thanks John. thumbsupde1 Things change so fast these days, posts like this help us keep up with what's going on.

[aero63]

Thanks John this is a great article.

That is a pretty great percentage in survival rate if you ask me.

I believe that I touched upon this issue in my transplant journey as well as another from the other forum needing the children's lungs because of size.

I believe that it opens the door to many more people getting their lungs sooner.

[muggsmom]

Thank you so much for posting this, John. The way I understood it, it was only one study, so I'm sure more will be required before this is available to all TX patients. One more thing I will be discussing with the team when I have I the assessment in Sept.