Episode 72: Impact of Donor-Specific Antibodies on Longitudinal Lung Function and BLAD

On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors host a discussion on the paper, "Impact of donor specific antibodies on longitudinal lung function and baseline lung allograft dysfunction."

They are joined by the first author, Muhtadi Alnababteh, MD, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and Staff Clinician at the National Institutes of Health, and senior author Michael Keller, MD, of the Pulmonary and Critical Care division at the University of Maryland.

The discussion explores:

• Common characteristics of patients who developed donor-specific antibodies (DSA)
• Differences in outcomes depending on when DSA developed
• Associations between the development of DSA and antibody-mediated rejection, and related time frames

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