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Double lung, unlike single lung transplantation might provide a protective effect on mortality and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome

BACKGROUND: Survival after lung transplantation (LTx) is often limited by bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). METHOD: Survey of 278 recipients who underwent LTx. The endpoint used was BOS (BOS grade ≥ 2), death or Re-lung transplantation (Re-LTx) assessed by competing risk regression analyses....

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Autores principales: Fakhro, Mohammed, Broberg, Ellen, Algotsson, Lars, Hansson, Lennart, Koul, Bansi, Gustafsson, Ronny, Wierup, Per, Ingemansson, Richard, Lindstedt, Sandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5702105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29178919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0666-5