Abstract:To date, lung transplantation is an accepted and a preferred treatment modality for end-stage lung diseases (1-3). But ischemia reperfusion--related injury, allograft rejection, bronchiolitis obliterans, and chronic graft rejection are still important and detrimental problems in lung transplant medicine (2). The gap between the limited number of donor organs and the increase in the number of patients on the waiting list is increasing rapidly. The acceptance of lung donors is still 20%-30% so far. The scarcity … Show more
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