Broncho-alveolar lavage fluid recovery correlates with airway neutrophilia in lung transplant patients

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 339-347

  Vanaudenaerde, Bart M ^a   Wuyts, Wim A ^a,b   Geudens, Nele ^a   Nawrot, Tim S ^a   Vos, Robin ^a   Dupont, Lieven J ^a,b   Van Raemdonck, Dirk E ^b   Verleden, Geert M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome; Interleukin 8; Lung transplantation; Neutrophilia

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 38749093707     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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