Bronchoscopic evaluation of pulmonary complications following kidney transplantation
Strausz, J.; Réti, V.; Gondos, T.; Soltész, I.
Orvosi Hetilap 138(52): 3293-3295
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-6002 PMID: 9463183 Document Number: 476590
The authors evaluated the efficiency of bronchoscopy in kidney transplanted patients with late pulmonary complications (mean 370 days after transplantation). The bronchoscopy was made meanly 9.5 days after recognizing pulmonary diseases, in that time 7 patients were mechanically ventilated. In 15 cases therapy guided by the cytological, histological and microbiological results has been hoped to improve outcome. This study suggest that bronchoscopy might be important in the diagnosis of the late pulmonary complications of kidney transplanted patients.