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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome"”.
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Cytomegalovirus Infection in Heart and Lung Transplant Patients with focus on long-term outcome
… and to evaluate whether CMV is a risk factor for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after lung transplantation and coronary artery vasculopathy (CAV) after heart transplantation. CMV disease had a significant negative impact on 10-year survival as compared with no CMV infection in a study of …
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Invasive fungal disease in immunocompromised hosts with focus on diagnostics
… for the analysis of betaglucan. Development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) was assessed during a median 4.6 years of follow-up. Fungal colonization or tracheobronchitis had no impact on the development of BOS or on all-cause mortality. Betaglucan levels in serum were low while …
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The role of donor CD4 T lymphocyte chimerism in lung transplant recipients
… lung transplant recipients develop progressive Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome (BOS) by 5 years after transplant. In the last decade, several experimental and clinical studies have demonstrated that cellular and humoral autoimmune responses to ‘self’ antigens may play a causative role in the …