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Bronchoalveolar lavage macrophage and lymphocyte phenotypes in lung transplant recipients.
The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation - 1 Oct 2001
Ward C, Whitford H, Snell G, Bao H, Zheng L, Reid D, Williams T J, Walters E H
Abstract excerpt
Recent publications have demonstrated potentially pathologic changes in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) from clinically stable lung transplant recipients (SLTRs), but there are few available data on alveolar macrophages (AMs). We formulated the hypothesis that changes in BAL AM and lymphocyte phenotypes would be apparent even in SLTRs.A cross-sectional study using a standardized 3 x 60 ml BAL, investigating...
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