Prime Time or Overtime? Lung Transplant in the Elderly

1 March, 2024 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST

• Advanced Lung Failure & Transplantation
• Committees & Communities
• Education
• Online Education
• Past Webinars
• Pathology
• Webinar

This webinar will start with the clinical-pathological presentation of an intriguing case by an early career specialist. The patient was a 73-years old male who underwent a single left lung transplantation for rheumatoid arthritis-interstitial lung disease with some aging-related comorbidities. A few days after transplantation, he developed a self-limiting constrictive pericarditis and a persistent mild acute cellular rejection in the follow-up. At 18 months after transplantation, a squamous cell carcinoma was found in the surgical biopsy sampled from the right native lung. The case presentation will offer key discussion points that the expert panelists will address: lights and shadows of transplantation in elderly recipients, both from a clinical (mainly focusing on comorbidities, therapeutic compliance and overall survival) and a pathological (mainly focusing on less or higher risk of post-transplant graft complications, particularly in relation to telomeropathies) point-of-view.

Moderators

Fiorella Calabrese, MD
Gregor Vlacic, MD

Presentations

Clinical Case Presentation
Presented by Jeeyon Grace Rim, MD

Elderly Recipients: Lights and Shadows for the Clinician
Presented by Lorenzo Zaffiri, MD

Elderly Recipients: Lights and Shadows for the Pathologist
Presented by Elizabeth Pavlisko, MD

Q&A Session

Speakers

Fiorella Calabrese, MD

University of Padova

Padova, Italy

Gregor Vlacic, MD

University Clinic for Respiratory and Allergic Diseases

Golnik, Slovenia

Jeeyon Grace Rim, MD

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC USA

Lorenzo Zaffiri, MD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Los Angeles, CA USA

Elizabeth Pavlisko, MD

Duke Unviersity Medical Center

Durham, NC USA