transplantation. Epithelial injury is thought to be a key event in the pathogenesis of CLAD.
M30 and M65 are fragments of cytokeratin‐18 released specifically during epithelial cell
apoptosis and total cell death, respectively. We investigated whether M30 and M65 levels in
bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) correlate with CLAD subtypes: restrictive allograft syndrome
(RAS) versus bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). BAL s were obtained from 26 patients …