Susan Murray

TL;DR: The deliberations of the Subcommittee in identifying priorities for a new lung allocation system, the analyses undertaken by the OPTN and the Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients and the evolution of a new Lung Allocation Score, incorporating waiting list and posttransplant survival probabilities are reviewed.

TL;DR: Dynamic interactions between clinicians, radiologists, and pathologists improve interobserver agreement and diagnostic confidence in suspected idiopathic interstitial pneumonia.

TL;DR: Findings show the critical relationship between airway bacterial community structure, disease stage, and clinical state at the time of sample collection are the key parameters with which to assess the complex ecology of the CF airway.

TL;DR: Patients with a typical HRCT appearance of UIP experience the highest mortality, and a surgical lung biopsy is indicated for patients without an HRCT appeared to differentiate between histological UIP and NSIP.

TL;DR: It is concluded that knowledge of desaturation during a 6-minute walk test adds prognostic information for patients with usual interstitial pneumonia and nonspecificinterstitial pneumonia.