Monitoring practices of chronic lung allograft dysfunction in pediatric lung transplantation.
Nicholas AvdimiretzThomas RadtkeChristian BendenPublished in: Pediatric pulmonology (2022)
Our results indicate continued use of conventional PFT along with chest CT and less so CXR for CLAD detection and monitoring in the large majority of centers. Infant/preschool PFT and novel methods such as MBW are used in a few centers only. Respondents agreed there is a timely need for pediatric consensus guidelines on CLAD detection and monitoring.