Late Respiratory Infection after Lung Transplantation
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Late Respiratory Infection after Lung Transplantation
BACKGROUND Aiming to improve outcome of lung transplantation (LTx) patients, we reviewed risk factors and treatment practices for the LTx recipients who experienced respiratory infection in the late post-LTx period (>1 month after LTx). METHODS We analyzed the clinical data of 48 recipients and donors from 61 LTx, who experienced late respiratory infections. Late respiratory infections were c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1738-3536,2005-6184
DOI: 10.4046/trd.2013.74.2.63