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Deepika Prasad Kulkarni

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Scholarly Works


Passenger Lymphocyte Syndrome Presenting With Severe Refractory Thrombocytopenia After Transplantation: A Multi-Recipient Case Series.

Journal article Clin Transplant · September 2025 Passenger lymphocyte syndrome (PLS) is an immune-mediated complication that can occur following solid organ transplantation, resulting from the transfer of donor-derived lymphocytes that produce alloantibodies targeting recipient antigens. We report a case ... Full text Link to item Cite

Invasive surgical site infections after lung transplantation: contemporary risk factors and associated clinical outcomes.

Journal article JHLT Open · August 2025 BACKGROUND: Invasive primary surgical site infections (IP-SSI) complicate lung transplant (LT) surgery. Identification of IP-SSI risk factors is critical to IP-SSI prevention. METHODS: This single-center retrospective cohort study of adult patients who und ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A Tight Squeeze: Endobronchial Mucormycosis in a Heart-Lung Transplant Recipient

Conference JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION · April 2024 Link to item Cite

Acute Rejection of the Lung Allograft: Phenotypes and Management

Journal article Obm Transplantation · January 1, 2023 Treatment options for end stage lung diseases are limited to stabilizing lung failure, decreasing disease progression, and symptom management, but significant reversal of lost lung function is often not possible. For well selected patients, lung transplant ... Full text Cite