Can we predict lung transplant outcomes? new study seeks answers

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients aged 15 and over transplanted (first or re transplantation, single, bilateral or combined) between 01/01/2009 and the date of the first prospective inclusion, benefiting from regular monitoring in one of the participating centers 2. Or Newly transplanted patient single, bilateral LTx, combined LTx) aged of 15 or more at the moment of transplantation, in one of the participating centers between the date of the first prospective inclusion during three years 3. Patients understanding the French language 4. Having signed an informed consent form for this study\*, and for patients aged 15 to 18 that the holder(s) of parental authority has signed the informed consent 5. Being covered by a national health insurance \* Already transplanted patient deceased before the beginning of the study: only clinical data (including biological samples clinically indicated likely to be reused, like serum of transbronchial biopsy (tbb)) will be included under condition of tracing any refusal, reluctance, reservations to the use of data, in patient files, by text analysis in all available digital documents. This approach allows both an exhaustive analysis in a timely, rapid way, that human reading would not allow. In case of mention of refusal, reluctance, reservations, the patient's data will not be collected. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Hemoglobin levels inferior than or equal to 8g/dl 2. Patients not understanding the French language 3. Don't being covered by a national health insurance 4. Being under guardianship or curatorship 5. Pregnant women\* \* Candidate for LTx are not allowed for pregnancy. During the follow up, pregnancies are permitted subject to medical approval of the project and close monitoring. It was decided that during pregnancy the participation for biocollection, would be suspended temporally. Realistically 1/ in the former situation patient candidate for Lung transplantation are not pregnant, 2/ in contrast long after transplantation, medically supervised pregnancy could occur. In that case, research sampling might be suspended temporarily.