Comment on "Risk factors for intensive care unit readmission after lung transplantation: a retrospective cohort study".

Abstract

critical myopathy, impaired skeletal muscle oxidative capacity, and local wound complications due to continuous motion in the thoracic region or old age factors. One study of 700 lung transplant recipients found a 9.2% incidence of neurological complications including stroke and metabolic encephalopathy in the first 2 weeks posttransplantation. Also, a retrospective study revealed the 90-day mortality rate in patients with neurologic complications after lung transplantation to be 15% and only 4% among recipients who did not develop such complications [3]