Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients
BACKGROUND: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), the main cause of late mortality following lung transplantation, is defined as an irreversible decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1).Previous studies using azithromycin for BOS in lung transplant patients have demonstrated a potential...
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| author | Nancy R Porhownik Wael Batobara Wayne Kepron Helmut W Unruh Zoheir Bshouty |
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| description | BACKGROUND: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), the main cause of late mortality following lung transplantation, is defined as an irreversible decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1).Previous studies using azithromycin for BOS in lung transplant patients have demonstrated a potential reversibility of the decline in FEV1. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b6a047fe691b4c0eb8775400a28423f82025-02-03T01:06:13ZengWileyCanadian Respiratory Journal1198-22412008-01-0115419920210.1155/2008/158681Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant PatientsNancy R Porhownik0Wael Batobara1Wayne Kepron2Helmut W Unruh3Zoheir Bshouty4Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaBACKGROUND: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), the main cause of late mortality following lung transplantation, is defined as an irreversible decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1).Previous studies using azithromycin for BOS in lung transplant patients have demonstrated a potential reversibility of the decline in FEV1.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/158681 |
| spellingShingle | Nancy R Porhownik Wael Batobara Wayne Kepron Helmut W Unruh Zoheir Bshouty Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients Canadian Respiratory Journal |
| title | Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients |
| title_full | Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients |
| title_fullStr | Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients |
| title_short | Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients |
| title_sort | effect of maintenance azithromycin on established bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant patients |
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