Low birthweight babies and babies born preterm are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality in the first year of life, as well as in the longer-term. Since information on ethnic group is not recorded at birth registration in England and Wales, it has not been possible to produce routine statistics on birthweight or gestational age by ethnic group. A new system, introduced in 2002, for alloc...

length of stay and increased resource utilization was reported [6]. Thus, it would be helpful, if more details on post-transplant complications between groups could be provided. The survival data, which are limited to an unadjusted Kaplan–Meier survival analysis comparing conventional with lobar LTx, make it difficult to interpret the results in context. The lobar LTx group consisted predominan...