Molecular Assessment of Rejection and Injury in Lung Transplant Biopsies

Improved understanding of lung transplant disease states is essential because failure rates are high, often due to chronic lung allograft dysfunction. However, histologic assessment of lung transplant transbronchial biopsies (TBBs) is difficult and often uninterpretable even with 10 pieces.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - February 6, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Kieran M Halloran, Michael D Parkes, Jessica Chang, Irina L Timofte, Gregory I Snell, Glen P Westall, Ramsey Hachem, Daniel Kreisel, Elbert Trulock, Antoine Roux, Stephen Juvet, Shaf Keshavjee, Peter Jaksch, Walter Klepetko, Philip F Halloran Tags: Original Clinical Science Source Type: research