Article: Coexistence of acute cellular rejection and lymphoproliferative disorder in a lung transplant patient.

Lung transplantation is an established and increasingly available therapeutic intervention for end-stage pulmonary disease. (1) Acute cellular rejection (ACR), with an incidence of 67%, (2) and infections are frequent complications in the first 2 to 3 months following transplantation. During the later posttransplantation period, progressive deterioration of graft function secondary to obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) develops in about 10% to 54% of lung recipients. (3) Obliterative bronchiolitis resulting from chronic rejection usually cannot be successfully treated once it is clinically manifest. For this reason, it represents the most critical threat to the long-term ...

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