[Lung infections after kidney transplantation. II. Diagnosis and therapy]

In the diagnosis of pulmonary infections in patients after transplantations of the kidneys the main requirement is rapid assessment of the causal agent. This demand can be met only by collaboration of many specialists. Only when the diagnosis is established in time, the infectious process can be treated and the patient saved. An analysis of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used in the examination of patients with pulmonary infections after transplantations of the kidneys is the subject of part II of the authors' paper.