Infectious Complications in Lung Transplant Recipients

Lung transplantation is a lifesaving intervention for patients with advanced lung disease. Due to a combination of immunosuppression, continuous exposure of the lungs to the environment, and complications at the anastomotic sites, lung transplant recipients are at high risk for infectious complicati...

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Autores principales: Trachuk, Polina, Bartash, Rachel, Abbasi, Mohammed, Keene, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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State of the Art Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33169174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00408-020-00403-9
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description Lung transplantation is a lifesaving intervention for patients with advanced lung disease. Due to a combination of immunosuppression, continuous exposure of the lungs to the environment, and complications at the anastomotic sites, lung transplant recipients are at high risk for infectious complications. The aim of this review is to summarize recent developments in the field of infectious diseases as it pertains to lung transplant recipients.
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spelling pubmed-76520552020-11-10 Infectious Complications in Lung Transplant Recipients Trachuk, Polina Bartash, Rachel Abbasi, Mohammed Keene, Adam Lung State of the Art Review Lung transplantation is a lifesaving intervention for patients with advanced lung disease. Due to a combination of immunosuppression, continuous exposure of the lungs to the environment, and complications at the anastomotic sites, lung transplant recipients are at high risk for infectious complications. The aim of this review is to summarize recent developments in the field of infectious diseases as it pertains to lung transplant recipients. Springer US 2020-11-09 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7652055/ /pubmed/33169174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00408-020-00403-9 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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