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October 20, 2016
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January 1, 2016
I. Introduction Although lung transplantation improves survival and provides significant short-term improvements in quality of life for patients with advanced lung diseases, five-year survival following transplantation is limited to 50% with most late deat ...
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January 1, 2013
The innate immune system, central to host defense, is now recognized to play a critical role in regulating adaptive immune responses, including allograft rejection. Innate immunity is of particular importance in lung transplantation, given the specialized ...
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January 1, 2006
Lung transplantation is now an effective therapeutic option for patients with many different end-stage pulmonary disorders (1,2). Although short-term survival has improved significantly since the first successful lung transplant operations, long-term outcome ...
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January 1, 2006
Pathology is a cornerstone in the care of all solid organ transplant patients, but it is nowhere of more importance than in the setting of lung transplantation. The lung is unique among transplanted organs in its extensive exposure to the external environm ...
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