Journal article
Small-Airways Disease in Recipients of Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplants
Abstract
In a retrospective review of 116 consecutive allogeneic bone marrow transplants (BMT), severe obstructive airways disease was identified in 11 patients. Lung pathology demonstrated bronchiolitis in 9 patients and physiologic studies showed small-airways disease consistent with bronchiolitis in the other 2. None of the 5 patients with associated infection survived, while 3 of the 6 patients without an identified pathogen stabilized or improved. …
Authors
CHAN CK; HYLAND RH; HUTCHEON MA; MINDEN MD; ALEXANDER MA; KOSSAKOWSKA AE; URBANSKI SJ; FYLES GM; FRASER IM; CURTIS JE
Journal
Medicine, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 327–340
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
September 1987
DOI
10.1097/00005792-198709000-00001
ISSN
0025-7974