CONTENTS Preface a Introduction b REPORTS OF WORKING GROUP 1 ON BRONCHIOLITIS SYNDROME AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION 1. Chronic lung allograft rejection: prevalence, pathology, risk factors and 1 pathophysiology G.M. Verleden, J. Egan, D. Israel-Biet, T. Lerut, J. Lordan, M. Reynaud-Gaubert, G.C. Riise, L. Sharples, S. Stewart, B. Vanaudenaerde, W. van der Bij, W. Wuyts and the other co-authors of Working Group 1 2. Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation: diagnosis and 19 treatment G.M. Verleden, A. Bankier, A. Boehler, P. Corris, L. Dupont, M. Estenne, S. Fischer, T. Lerut, H. Reichenspurner and the other co-authors of the Working Group 1 3. Infection and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant recipients 44 C.W. Ward, T. DeSouza, D.T. Keating, J. Lordan, J.J. Egan 4. Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome and bronchiolitis obliterans in lung 55 transplantation: will a pathologist and a physician ever meet? E.K. Verbeken, S. Stewart REPORTS OF WORKING GROUP 2 ON REPERFUSION INJURY/ ALTERNATIVE DONORS/SURGERY FOR EMPHYSEMA 5. Strategies in the prevention and the treatment of ischaemia-reperfusion injury 66 after lung transplantation D. Van Raemdonck, M. Strüber, F. Venuta, D. Vlasselaers, W. Wisser, M.E. Erasmus and the co-authors of Working Group 2 6. Alternatives to lung donor shortage 89 D. Van Raemdonck, W. Coosemans, W. Klepetko, J.H. Dark, S. Steen, F. Rega and the co-authors of Working Group 2 7. Surgery for emphysema: surgical aspects 113 T.C. Mineo, E. Pompeo, H.B. Ris, W. Weder, P. Evrard, G. Massard, N. Konietzko 8. Surgery for emphysema: medical aspects 129 E.W. Russi, W. De Wever, M. Decramer The European Respiratory Monograph Number 29 September 2004 Contents MON 29.qxd 30/7/09 12:59 Page 1