Lung donor bronchoalveolar lavage positivity: Incidence, risk factors, and lung transplant recipients' outcome.
Jacopo FumagalliVeronica PunziVittorio ScaravilliSerena M PassamontiLetizia C MorlacchiValeria RossettiAnna MaraschiniCaterina MatinatoMargherita BrivioIlaria RighiFrancesco BlasiAlessandra BanderaLorenzo RossoMauro PanigadaAlberto ZanellaGiacomo GrasselliPublished in: The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation (2024)
Receiving a graft with a positive BAL, which is poorly predicted by donors' characteristics, carries the risk of developing a DDI and is associated to a worse early graft function among uncolonized recipients.
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