Lung transplant
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- help each other live better and uncover the best ways to manage your health today
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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
Common symptom
Restlessness (akathisia)
How bad it is
What people are taking for it
Nothing reported yet
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
Treatment name(s)
Type
How many have tried
Tried for
Data from patients with lung transplant, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.
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Compare treatments taken by people with lung transplant
Treatment name(s)
Perceived effectiveness
Side effects
Total evaluations
Tried for
Perceived effectiveness
for lung transplant (3 evaluations)
Side effects
hair loss
tremor(s)
Total evaluations
3
Tried for
lung transplant
(3)
- Major
- Moderate
- Slight
- None
- Can't tell
- Severe
- Moderate
- Mild
- None
Data from patients with lung transplant, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.
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Who has lung transplant on PatientsLikeMe?
- 1 new patients joined this month
- 337 say lung transplant is their primary condition
| Age | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| <20 | 0 | |
| 20s | 13 | |
| 30s | 46 | |
| 40s | 71 | |
| 50s | 110 | |
| 60s | 210 | |
| 70+ | 208 |
Distribution of sex
| Sex | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Male | 304 | |
| Female | 346 |
These charts show data from lung transplant patients who have completed their condition history
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