Incidence of Primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation is altered by timing of allograft implantation

Peter Cunningham, Robert Maidstone, Hannah Durrington, Rajamiyer Venkateswaran, Marcelo Cypel, Shaf Keshavjee, Julie Gibbs, Andrew Loudon, Chung Wai Chow, David Ray, John Blaikley

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Abstract

The importance of circadian factors in managing patients is poorly understood. We present two retrospective cohort studies showing that lungs reperfused between 4 and 8 AM have a higher incidence (OR 1.12; 95% CI 1.03 to 1.21; p=0.01) of primary graft dysfunction (PGD) in the first 72 hours after transplantation. Cooling of the donor lung, occurring during organ preservation, shifts the donor circadian clock causing desynchrony with the recipient. The clock protein REV-ERBα directly regulates PGD biomarkers explaining this circadian regulation while also allowing them to be manipulated with synthetic REV-ERB ligands.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)413-416
Number of pages4
JournalThorax
Volume74
Issue number4
Early online date9 Oct 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Oct 2018

Keywords

  • lung transplantation
  • macrophage biology

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