Lung transplantation and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome: Are two lungs better than one?

Chest

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1112-1114

  Levine, Stephanie M ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG RESISTANCE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036430268     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.122.4.1112     Document Type: Article

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