Surveillance bronchoscopy in children during the first year after lung transplantation: Is it worth it?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since January 2002, routine surveillance bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and transbronchial biopsy has been performed in all paediatric recipients of lung and heart-lung transplants at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK, using a newly revised treatment protocol.

Aims

To report the prevalence of rejection and bacterial, viral or fungal pathogens in asymptomatic children and compare this with the prevalence in children with symptoms.

Participants

The study population included all paediatric patients undergoing single lung transplantation (SLTx), double lung transplantation (DLTx) or heart-lung transplantation between January 2002 and December 2005.

Methods

Surveillance bronchoscopies were performed at 1 week, and 1

SUBMITTER: Benden C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2111290 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature