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Role of genetics in lung transplant complications.
Annals of medicine - 1 Mar 2015
Ruttens D, Vandermeulen E, Verleden S E, Bellon H, Vos R, Van Raemdonck D E, Dupont L J, Vanaudenaerde B M, Verleden G M
Abstract excerpt
There is increasing knowledge that patients can be predisposed to a certain disease by genetic variations in their DNA. Extensive genetic variation has been described in molecules involved in short- and long-term complications after lung transplantation (LTx), such as primary graft dysfunction (PGD), acute rejection, respiratory infection, chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), and mortality. Several of these...
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