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Diagnosis and Management of Bronchiolitis Obliterans

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The most common cause of late death after lung transplantation has been a progressive and unrelenting deterioration in pulmonary allograft function related to the development of obliterative airway disease. In the transplantation literature this entity has been referred to as bronchiolitis obliterans, obliterative bronchiolitis, chronic rejection and, most recently, bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome. Although the etiology of bronchiolitis obliterans remains unclear, it most likely represents a manifestation of chronic lung rejection. The current approaches to the diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis obliterans are reviewed below.

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  1. Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston

    David K. C. Cooper MA, PhD, MD, MS, FRCS, FACC, FACS

  2. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, USA

    David K. C. Cooper MA, PhD, MD, MS, FRCS, FACC, FACS

  3. St Louis University Health Sciences Center, St Louis, USA

    Leslie W. Miller MD, FACC

  4. Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA

    G. Alexander Patterson MD, FRCS(C), FACS

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Kriett, M., Jamieson, S.W. (1996). Diagnosis and Management of Bronchiolitis Obliterans. In: Cooper, D.K.C., Miller, L.W., Patterson, G.A. (eds) The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34287-0_59

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