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Sinan Turkkan1, Muhammed Ali Beyoglu, M Furkan Sahin
1From the University of Health Sciences, Ankara City Hospital, Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Ankara, Turkey.
Abstract:
The pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, known as COVID-19, has continued to show its effect all over the world. The clinical course of the disease in solid-organ transplant recipients is a matter of concern. Lung transplant recipients also demonstrate special features because the graft encounters the COVID-19 pathogen directly as a result of inhalation, and the lungs are the most important organs affected by the disease. We shared the development process of acute rejection followed by rapid progression of chronic lung allograft dysfunction after COVID-19 in a recipient who was followed-up in the fifth year after lung transplant.
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