Abstract
The long-term success of heart-lung transplantation is limited by the development of bronchiolitis obliterans, possibly as a form of chronic lung allograft rejection. In the present study, we have characterized by immunohistochemical staining the lymphocytes infiltrating the lesions of bronchiolitis obliterans in one patient following heart-lung transplantation. The finding that the preponderant cells expressed the CD8 (putative cytotoxic/suppressor) marker lends support to the notion that chronic rejection is at least one mechanism for the development of bronchiolitis obliterans following heart-lung transplantation.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 955-959 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Transplantation |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1990 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Transplantation
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