Pulmonary retransplantation for obliterative bronchiolitis: Intermediate-term results of a North American–European series

An international series of pulmonary retransplantation was updated to identify the predictors of survival in the intermediate-term after reoperation for obliterative bronchiolitis. The study cohort included 32 patients with end-stage obliterative bronchiolitis who underwent retransplantation in 15 North American and European centers between 1988 and 1992. Five types of retransplantation procedures were done, including repeat ipsilateral single …