Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients

Nancy R Porhownik; Wael Batobara; Wayne Kepron; Helmut W Unruh; Zoheir Bshouty

doi:10.1155/2008/158681

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2008)

Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients

Nancy R Porhownik,
Wael Batobara,
Wayne Kepron,
Helmut W Unruh,
Zoheir Bshouty

Affiliations

Nancy R Porhownik: Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Wael Batobara: Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Wayne Kepron: Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Helmut W Unruh: Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Zoheir Bshouty: Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/158681
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 4
pp. 199 – 202

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), the main cause of late mortality following lung transplantation, is defined as an irreversible decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1).Previous studies using azithromycin for BOS in lung transplant patients have demonstrated a potential reversibility of the decline in FEV1.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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