Regardless of disease severity and lung transplant eligibility, patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis who have access to a lung transplant center and live in more affluent areas have a higher probability of undergoing lung transplant.
“As clinicians and policymakers strive to ensure that eligible patients with IPF have equal opportunity to undergo a lung transplant, a better understanding of factors associated with lung transplant is needed,” Aparna Swaminathan, MD, assistant professor of medicine and member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke University