What is lung transplant?

Lung transplantation is an option for patients who have respiratory insufficiency or failure and who remain at life-threatening risk despite optimal medical treatment. Single and double lung procedures are about equally common.

How do members experience lung transplant?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with lung transplant*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for lung transplant*

Who has lung transplant on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 0
20s 10
30s 45
40s 68
50s 93
60s 205
70+ 274

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 316
Female 365

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What is lung transplant?

Lung transplantation is an option for patients who have respiratory insufficiency or failure and who remain at life-threatening risk despite optimal medical treatment. Single and double lung procedures are about equally common.



Common symptoms reported by people with lung transplant

Common symptoms
How bad it is
What people are taking for it

Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for lung transplant

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Compare treatments taken by people with lung transplant

Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have lung transplant through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.

Got a question about living with lung transplant? Members in the forum might have the answers.



Who has lung transplant on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 0 new patients joined this month
  • 370 say lung transplant is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 0
20s 10
30s 45
40s 68
50s 93
60s 205
70+ 274

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 316
Female 365

These charts show data from lung transplant patients who have completed their condition history
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