background: lung diseases are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality after renal transplantation. the aim of the study is to define the risk factors for infectious and noninfectious pulmonary complications in kidney transplant patients. materials and methods:we prospectively studied 267 patients after renal transplantation. the kidney recipients were followed-up for the development ...

background: pulmonary complications of radiation to breast are inevitable, while its incidence and severity are not clear. one of the methods to assess pulmonary complications is spirometry. the influence of radiotherapy on pulmonary function test and the factors affecting it have been assessed in this study. methods: breast cancer patients with stage ii and iii (based on tnm staging), underwen...

background: postoperative pulmonary complications (ppc) are of the major reasons for death. prolonged mechanical ventilation (pmv) and delayed extubation are leading to the incidence of more seriously complications. the effect of hyperinflation has not been investigated in control of these complications in patients who have been weaned from mechanical ventilation and are undergoing t-tube suppo...

introduction: bronchiolitis obliterans (bo) is one of the most important pulmonary complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct). we decided to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of bo in hsct patients in the shariati hospital oncology research center. materials and methods: forty two patients, who had had hsct for at least 6 months ago, completed the study. the diagnosi...

conclusions children with chd are at risk of severe complications with the involvement of other organs. long-term febrile illness should be taken seriously in these children. they need hospitalization and careful evaluation. case presentation a 6-year-old girl with a ventricular septal defect (vsd) was presented. echocardiography revealed large vegetation in the right ventricular outflow tract ...

were most common. We designed this study to update the pulmonary complications associated with illicit drug use in the 1990s. Design: Concurrent and retrospective chart review. Setting: Inner-city municipal hospital. Patients: All illicit drug users with pulmonary compli¬ cations seen by the pulmonary consult service were enrolled in the study. There were 105 hospital admis¬ sions of 97 patient...