Surveillance bronchoscopy in children during the first year after lung transplantation: Is it worth it?

Thorax

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-61

  Benden, C ^b   Harpur Sinclair, O ^b   Ranasinghe, A S ^b   Hartley, J C ^b   Elliott, M J ^b   Aurora, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ACUTE CELLULAR REJECTION; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALAISE; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33846197875     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2006.063404     Document Type: Article

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