Surgical Lung Biopsy in Transplant Patients With Diffuse Lung Disease: How Much Worse When the Lung Is the Graft?

It is relatively uncommon for a solid organ transplant patient with DLD to require a SLB. Clinical and radiologic presentation differ in patients with lung transplants compared with other transplants. Postoperative outcomes are not significantly different between the groups. SLB performed early in the course of the disease might be beneficial. Having a lung transplant is a significant negative predictor of survival.