Lung transplantation for patients with severe COVID-19.
Lung transplantation for patients with severe COVID-19.
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DOI:
10.1126/scitranslmed.abe4282
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发表时间:
2020-12-16
影响因子:
17.1
通讯作者:
Budinger GRS
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作者:
Bharat A;Querrey M;Markov NS;Kim S;Kurihara C;Garza-Castillon R;Manerikar A;Shilatifard A;Tomic R;Politanska Y;Abdala-Valencia H;Yeldandi AV;Lomasney JW;Misharin AV;Budinger GRS
Some patients with severe COVID-19 develop end-stage pulmonary fibrosis for which lung transplantation may be the only treatment. Despite optimal medical therapy, some patients with severe COVID-19 develop irreversible lung injury. In these patients who cannot be weaned from mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal life support, lung transplantation may be the only life-saving option. Bharat et al. now report the results of lung transplantation in three patients who had COVID-19–associated respiratory failure. SARS-CoV-2 RNA could not be detected in the explanted lungs of these patients, but fibrotic pathology and transcriptional changes resembling those of lungs from patients with pulmonary fibrosis were observed. Lung transplantation can potentially be a life-saving treatment for patients with nonresolving COVID-19–associated respiratory failure. Concerns limiting lung transplantation include recurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the allograft, technical challenges imposed by viral-mediated injury to the native lung, and the potential risk for allograft infection by pathogens causing ventilator-associated pneumonia in the native lung. Additionally, the native lung might recover, resulting in long-term outcomes preferable to those of transplant. Here, we report the results of lung transplantation in three patients with nonresolving COVID-19–associated respiratory failure. We performed single-molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization (smFISH) to detect both positive and negative strands of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in explanted lung tissue from the three patients and in additional control lung tissue samples. We conducted extracellular matrix imaging and single-cell RNA sequencing on explanted lung tissue from the three patients who underwent transplantation and on warm postmortem lung biopsies from two patients who had died from COVID-19–associated pneumonia. Lungs from these five patients with prolonged COVID-19 disease were free of SARS-CoV-2 as detected by smFISH, but pathology showed extensive evidence of injury and fibrosis that resembled end-stage pulmonary fibrosis. Using machine learning, we compared single-cell RNA sequencing data from the lungs of patients with late-stage COVID-19 to that from the lungs of patients with pulmonary fibrosis and identified similarities in gene expression across cell lineages. Our findings suggest that some patients with severe COVID-19 develop fibrotic lung disease for which lung transplantation is their only option for survival.
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影响因子:
11.3
作者:
Sola I;Almazán F;Zúñiga S;Enjuanes L
通讯作者:
Enjuanes L
DOI:
10.1084/jem.20162152
发表时间:
2017-08-07
期刊:
The Journal of experimental medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
Misharin AV;Morales-Nebreda L;Reyfman PA;Cuda CM;Walter JM;McQuattie-Pimentel AC;Chen CI;Anekalla KR;Joshi N;Williams KJN;Abdala-Valencia H;Yacoub TJ;Chi M;Chiu S;Gonzalez-Gonzalez FJ;Gates K;Lam AP;Nicholson TT;Homan PJ;Soberanes S;Dominguez S;Morgan VK;Saber R;Shaffer A;Hinchcliff M;Marshall SA;Bharat A;Berdnikovs S;Bhorade SM;Bartom ET;Morimoto RI;Balch WE;Sznajder JI;Chandel NS;Mutlu GM;Jain M;Gottardi CJ;Singer BD;Ridge KM;Bagheri N;Shilatifard A;Budinger GRS;Perlman H
通讯作者:
Perlman H
影响因子:
158.5
作者:
Ackermann, Maximilian;Verleden, Stijn E.;Jonigk, Danny
通讯作者:
Jonigk, Danny
影响因子:
12.3
作者:
Wolf FA;Angerer P;Theis FJ
通讯作者:
Theis FJ
影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Strunz, Maximilian;Simon, Lukas M.;Schiller, Herbert B.
通讯作者:
Schiller, Herbert B.