Objectives

• Case of respiratory decompensation • DDx in a lung transplant patient • Management of the same • PICO

Fairfax Hospital Medicine EBM

Naveen Muthu, PGY-2

PICO ● Patient: s/p lung transplant, “low IgG”

– Infectious complications limit long term survival

● Intervention: IVIG treatment ● Comparison: No treatment ● Outcome: Reduction in infections

– Increase in long term survival

● Pubmed search: "Lung Transplantation"[Mesh]

AND "Immunoglobulins, Intravenous"[Mesh]

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