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Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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Late-onset non-infectious pulmonary complications (LONIPCs) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) affect up to 20% of HSCT recipients [1]; LONIPCs usually occur within the first 3 years following HSCT and are associated with a poor outcome [1]. Although bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is the most common, other LONIPCs, particularly different entities of interstitial lung diseases (ILD), have been more recently highlighted [1,2,3]. It is particularly important to differentiate them because their management and their prognoses are different.

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  1. Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Service de Pneumologie, F-75010, Paris, France

    Louise Bondeelle, Julien Gras, Abdellatif Tazi & Anne Bergeron

  2. Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Service de Maladies infectieuses, F-75010, Paris, France

    Julien Gras

  3. Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Service d’Hématologie-Greffe, F-75010, Paris, France

    David Michonneau & Gérard Socié

  4. Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité AP-HP, Hôpital Robert Debré, Service de Pédiatrie, F-75010, Paris, France

    Véronique Houdouin

  5. Service de thérapie cellulaire et d’hématologie clinique adulte, Université d’Auvergne EA3846, CIC-501, CHU Clermont-Ferrand Hôpital Estaing, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Eric Hermet

  6. Service d’Hématologie, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France

    Nicolas Blin

  7. Département d’Hématologie, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France

    Franck Nicolini & Mauricette Michallet

  8. Service de Pneumologie, CHU Caen, Avenue Côte de Nacre, 14000, Caen, France

    Stéphane Dominique

  9. Secteur de greffe, CHU-Oncopole, Toulouse, France

    Anne Huynh

  10. Univ Côte d’Azur, CHU Nice, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, FHU OncoAge, Nice, France

    Sylvie Leroy

  11. Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Service de Pneumologie, Transplantation pulmonaire, Hôpital Bichat, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, 75877, Paris, France

    Gabriel Thabut

  12. Service de Pneumologie, maladies respiratoires rares, mucoviscidose; CHU de Marseille - Hôpital Nord, Chemin des Bourrely, 13915, Marseille, Cedex 20, France

    Martine Reynaud-Gaubert

  13. UMR 1153 CRESS, Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Research Team, F-75010, Paris, France

    Abdellatif Tazi & Anne Bergeron

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Bondeelle, L., Gras, J., Michonneau, D. et al. Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 55, 982–986 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-019-0636-8

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