Outcomes following lung transplantation for American Indians/Alaska Natives in the United States

Michelle N Bremer; Garrick J Gama; Sarah Golts; Christine M Lin; Aarya Kafi; Gordon Yung; Eugene Golts; Kamyar Afshar

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2023.11.007

Outcomes following lung transplantation for American Indians/Alaska Natives in the United States

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2024 Mar;43(3):519-522. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.11.007. Epub 2023 Nov 14.

Authors

Michelle N Bremer¹, Garrick J Gama², Sarah Golts³, Christine M Lin⁴, Aarya Kafi⁴, Gordon Yung⁴, Eugene Golts⁵, Kamyar Afshar⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa. Electronic address: michelle-bremer@uiowa.edu.
² University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa.
³ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁴ UC San Diego School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, La Jolla, California.
⁵ UC San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, La Jolla, California.

PMID: 37972827
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.11.007

Abstract

Limited data is available for American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) undergoing lung transplant. The goal of our study was to assess outcomes for AI/AN lung transplant recipients (LTR). A retrospective review of data from the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network was performed comparing AI/AN (n = 88) and Caucasian (n = 22,767) LTRs between May 4, 2005 and October 31, 2019. AI/AN LTRs had worse functional parameters prior to transplantation but had similar post-transplant outcomes compared to Caucasians LTRs.

Keywords: American Indians/Alaska Natives; Caucasians; health disparities; health outcomes by ethnicity; lung transplant; transplant survival.

MeSH terms

American Indian or Alaska Native*
Humans
Lung Transplantation*
United States