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Noninfectious pulmonary complications of liver, heart, and kidney transplantation.

Kotloff RM

Section of Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplantation, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. kotoloff@mail.med.upenn.edu

Because of their chronically immunosuppressed status, solid organ transplant recipients are continually at risk for infectious pulmonary complications. In addition, however, a number of noninfectious pulmonary complications plague the transplant recipient. These complications arise because of numerous factors, including the underlying conditions that preceded transplantation, the transplant surgery itself, and toxicity of post-transplantation medications. This article focuses on noninfectious pulmonary complications in the three largest recipient populations: liver, kidney, and heart.

Published 2 November 2005 in Clin Chest Med, 26(4): 623-9, vii.
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