Prognosis for Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation Patient survival rates are At 1 year: 84% with living-donor grafts and 83% with deceased-donor grafts At 5 years: 34% with living-donor grafts and 46% with deceased-donor grafts Mortality rate is higher for patients with primary pulmonary hypertension, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or sarcoidosis and lower for those with COPD or alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.