The importance of A, B, Cs! Airways and Breathing matter for survival after HSCT
Pulmonary compromise has been shown to significantly contribute to non-relapse mortality after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (or HSCT).1-4 The etiology of these pulmonary complications includes intrapulmonary causes of fibrosis and toxicities from treatment regimens or infections (restrictive lung disease), graft-versus-host disease or bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (obstructive lung disease), and vascular abnormalities (e.g. pulmonary hypertension), as well as extrapulmonary causes such as weakness or sclerodermatous GVHD.
Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - Category: Hematology Authors: Kirsten Williams Source Type: research
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