Episode 93: ISHLT Consensus Document: BLAD Definition, Timing, Outcomes

Today, JHLT: The Podcast discusses the recent ISHLT consensus document "Baseline Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Definition, Timing, and Implications for Outcomes—An ISHLT Consensus Document."

Now available online at JHLT—and a helpful companion perspective piece from the authors appears in the print October issue of JHLT.

Today's guests are co-leads on the document, Jens Gottlieb, MD, of Hannover Medical School and Kieran Halloran, MD, MSc, of the University of Alberta.

They discuss:

• Why rapid increases in usage of "BLAD" in the literature meant it was time for a formal definition
• Major considerations and areas of debate during the writing process
• How clinicians should think about patients meeting the criteria for BLAD and how the evaluation of underlying etiologies took place
• Interpreting BLAD's potential relationship to CLAD

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