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Survival by Lung-Transplantation Preference in Interstitial Lung Disease Patients with Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and High Lung Allocation Score

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All data analyzed are available upon request and data use approval from the United Network of Organ Sharing.

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MOH was partially supported by NIH (Award Number R00 HL141678) and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (Grant Number ME-2020C1-19220).

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  1. Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

    Arindam RoyChoudhury & Aaphsaarah Rahman

  2. Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Michael O. Harhay

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ARC performed the final analysis, prepared the manuscript, and interpreted the results; AR extracted the relevant data and performed initial analyses; MOH obtained the data, prepared the manuscript, and interpreted the results.

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Correspondence to Arindam RoyChoudhury.

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Dr. Harhay reports personal fees from Elsevier, Guidepoint Advisers, American Thoracic Society, and Trinity Life Science for activities unrelated to this work.

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RoyChoudhury, A., Rahman, A. & Harhay, M.O. Survival by Lung-Transplantation Preference in Interstitial Lung Disease Patients with Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and High Lung Allocation Score. Lung 200, 137–139 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-021-00504-z

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