Radiologists consciously or unconsciously encounter bronchiolitis on images frequently.
The purpose of this article is to simplify the concept of bronchiolitis to facilitate the …

The recent introduction of CLAD importantly changed the clinical practice in lung transplant
recipients. Given the relative low accuracy of the current diagnostic tools, future research …

Background Survival after lung transplantation is limited by chronic lung allograft dysfunction
(CLAD). Immunomodulatory therapies such as extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) and …

Bronchioles are noncartilaginous small airways with internal diameter of 2 mm or less,
located from approximately the eighth generation of purely air conducting airways …

With the introduction of high-throughput sequencing methods, our understanding of the
human lower respiratory tract's inhabitants has expanded significantly in recent years. What …

Background. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria in the lower respiratory tracts of allografts
may be risk factors for early posttransplant pneumonia (PTP) that causes detrimental …

Background This study was designed to prospectively evaluate the efficacy of extracorporeal
photopheresis (ECP) to attenuate the rate of decline of FEV1 in lung transplant recipients …

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is a major limitation in the long-
term survival of lung transplant recipients (LTRs). However, the risk factors in the …

Purpose: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation (LTx) manifests as a
sustained decline in forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1). Quantitative …

INTRODUCTION Donor‒recipient HLA-DR locus matching may be protective against
bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) in lung transplant recipients. It is unknown whether …