Lung Transplants Not Dangerous For Children With Cystic Fibrosis After All, Researchers Argue

As of late, a study was released in the New England Journal of Medicine that focused on how harmful lung transplants were to children with cystic fibrosis. However, in response to this study a couple more were released refuting the harmfulness and insisting that data used in the study was outdated and flawed. Having accepted the originally presented data on unsuccessful lung transplants, many children patients that might greatly benefit from transplant could have been pushed down waiting lists.
Because cystic fibrosis has no cure and because of its negative affects on the quality of life, it is important to pursue all means to help out the youth of society.This article first caught my eye because of the low number of lung transplants that are performed yearly. The first set of data could have slowed and inapproprately altered the allocation of lungs to patients. Additionally, it keeps avenues open to expand and improve upon lung transplantation methods so that children with the nagging disease of cystic fibrosis can receive more help. It also shows the importance of review of released studies. One would expect that inaccurate data that reaches out to such a global level would not have been published.