The burden of sinus disease in cystic fibrosis lung transplant recipients.
Letizia Corinna MorlacchiMark GreerIgor TudoracheFrancesco BlasiTobias WelteAxel HaverichJochen G MainzJens GottliebPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2018)
Symptoms of SD affected more than 60% of CF LuTx recipients. Nasal endoscopic inspection identified alterations in 55%. The majority of patients presented the same isolates both on NL and BAL performed on the same visit. These results strongly support a role of paranasal sinuses as "reservoir" for descending re-colonization of the lung graft.