Challenges in lung transplantation

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue NOVEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Krueger, Thorsten ^a   Berutto, Carine ^a   Aubert, John David ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; AZITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; EVEROLIMUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; MONTELUKAST; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PLACEBO; RAPAMYCIN; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS SYNDROME; CADAVER DONOR; CHRONIC LUNG ALLOGRAFT DYSFUNCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EX VIVO LUNG PERFUSION; EXTRACORPOREAL PHOTOPHERESIS; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEUTROPHILIC REVERSIBLE ALLOGRAFT DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PUVA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 82655169300     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13292     Document Type: Review

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