Demographics
Co-morbidities and other organ system diseases
Body Weight
Hepatic Impairment
Renal Impairment
Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Diabetes
Immunologic Factors
Medications
History of prior thoracic surgery/pleural adhesions/mechanical ventilation
Re-transplantation
General Thoracic Procedures
Dense Pleural Adhesions
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
History of Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease
Mechanical ventilation
Underlying disease
Obstructive Lung Disease
Suppurative Lung Disease
Restrictive Lung Disease
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension
Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Other Diseases
Type of transplant
Lung vs Heart–Lung Transplantation
SLT vs BLT
Role of cardiopulmonary bypass
Bleeding and transfusion-related lung injury
Surgical complications
Venous Obstruction
Arterial Stenosis
Orientation of the Graft
Reperfusion Technique and PGD
Experimental and clinical biologic factors and markers in the recipient
Upregulation of Molecules on Cell Surface Membrane
Prothrombotic and Fibrinolytic Factors
Release of Pro-inflammatory Mediators—Cytokines and Chemokines, Lipids, Complement and Endothelin
Cell Activation—Macrophages, Lymphocytes and Neutrophils
Exhaled Nitric Oxide (eNO)
Summary
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