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Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia in Renal Transplant Patients
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Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia in Renal Transplant Patients

Kamran Hasni, Joseph Slusher, Waqar Siddiqui, David Matsumura, Bachar Malek, Michael Heifets and Ziauddin Ahmed
Dialysis & transplantation, v 39(10), pp 449-451
01 Oct 2010
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https://doi.org/10.1002/dat.20488View
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Abstract

Engineering Engineering, Biomedical Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Technology Transplantation Urology & Nephrology
Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a syndrome with distinct clinical, radiological, and histological features. The radiographic changes of BOOP vary from multiple patchy, alveolar, or ground-glass infiltrates to diffuse reticulonodular opacities. The most frequently observed CT features are areas of lung consolidation and ground-glass opacity often with a subpleural distribution and small nodules; in addition, bronchial wall thickening and bronchodilatation can be seen. The exact pathogenesis of BOOP after organ transplantation remains to be clarified. Some researchers have suggested that BOOP is a non-specific reaction to injury; rejection is the most common injury in lung and kidney transplant recipients.

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Engineering, Biomedical
Transplantation
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