The children with severe cystic fibrosis rarely be helped by a firm in the lungs, the researchers more than in the conclusions they said surprised.
Only five of the 514 U.S. children on the waiting list for a transplant from 1992 to 2002 was more than a result of the operation is complicated and expensive, Dr. Theodore Liou, from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and colleagues found.
“We were surprised, literally,” Liou said in a telephone interview.
“We are in these deliberations would be a number of patients who take them, and a number of people who are not, and the production of balance. The study showed that it was not able to equal opportunity,” said Liou the results were also in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The transplantation is an accepted practice for the treatment of severe cases of the deadly hereditary disease, about 70000 people in the world and creates an abnormally thick mucus clogs the lungs and the digestive system.
But hardly any studies, the effectiveness of transplantation of lungs to help treat the incurable diseases.
Although the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation claims that 50 percent of recipients, five years after the operation, the complications are responsible for transplants with 12 percent of all deaths in people with cystic fibrosis.
“A fundamental principle in relation to the transplant lung disease, it prolongs life,” Dr. Julian Allen of the Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, and Dr. Gary Visner of the Children’s Hospital Boston wrote in a commentary.