[HTML][HTML] Recipient vascular endothelial growth factor serum levels predict primary lung graft dysfunction

K Krenn, W Klepetko, S Taghavi, G Lang… - American Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a severe complication in lung transplantation. Therapeutic
strategies are limited and there exist no predictive markers for PGD. To investigate whether
vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) that regulates vascular permeability could predict
PGD, pretransplant VEGF serum concentrations were measured in 150 lung transplant
patients and 12 controls by ELISA. PGD was scored from 0 to 3 using chest radiographs and
PaO 2/FiO 2 ratios according to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation …