肺移植候选者的选择是一个不断发展的领域，它推动了被认为是规范的界限。鉴于典型肺移植受者的人口统计学不断变化，以及导致患者移植后预后不良的风险因素列表不断增加，我们探讨了与年龄有关的肺移植候选选择的困境，脆弱,体重指数低和高，预先存在的癌症，和全身性自身免疫性风湿病。
Selection of lung transplant candidates is an evolving field that pushes the boundaries of what is considered the norm. Given the continually changing demographics of the typical lung transplant recipient as well as the growing list of risk factors that predispose patients to poor posttransplant outcomes, we explore the dilemmas in lung transplant candidate selections pertaining to older age, frailty, low and high body mass index, preexisting cancers, and systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
