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Pulmonary complications have emerged as one of the major problem of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (ITT). Interstitial pneumonitis is the most well-]mown complication; however, there is also increasing evidence to support the view that obstructive lung disease can be present in BMT recipients (Rodriguez-Roisín et al, 1984; Ralph et al, 1984; Wyatt et al, 1984). We report here the main pulmonary clinical and functional findings observed in 25 consecutive patients submitted to BMT during an 18 month-period, 20 of whom associated some form of acute and/or chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
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Rodriguez-Roisin, R., Roca, J., Marín, P., Grañena, A., Agustí-Vidal, A., Rozman, C. (1985). Pulmonary Follow-Up in Patients with Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD). In: Hinterberger, W., Barrett, A.J., Lechner, K., Deutsch, E. (eds) 11th Annual meeting of the EBMT. Experimental Hematology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-40457-7_111
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