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Rationale: The chronic rejection of lung allografts is attributable to progressive small airway obstruction.

Objectives: To determine precisely the site and nature of this type of airway obstruction.

Methods: Lungs from patients with rejected lung allografts treated by a second transplant (n = 7) were compared with unused donor (control) lungs (n = 7) using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) to determine the percentage of visible airways obstructed in each airway generation, micro-computed tomography (microCT) to visualize the site of obstruction, and histology to determine the nature of this obstruction.

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