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Congratulations to professor Tatsuki Koyama on the publication of "Long-term air pollution exposure and the risk of primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation" in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation on July 15. Co-authors include assistant in biostatistics Zhiguo "Alex" Zhao, plus colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Pennsylvania, along with corresponding author Lorraine Ware at Vanderbilt. The study explored whether "long-term exposure of the lung donor and recipient to high levels of ambient air pollutants would increase the risk of PGD in lung transplant recipients."

Figure 2 in the paper: "Location of transplantation recipients in the primary analytical cohort (N = 1,524)."