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Interstitial lung diseases after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: New pattern of lung chronic graft-versus-host disease?

Last Updated: Thursday, November 10, 2022

An analysis of Allo-HSCT recipients diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) or other interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) between 1981 and 2019 found that ILDs mainly occur in patients with chronic GvHD, but a better understanding of the pathophysiology is needed before they should be placed in the lung GvHD spectrum. BOS is the only formally recognized symptom if lung chronic GvHD.

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