Pulmonary Complications in Egyptian Bone Marrow Transplantation Recipients and their Effect on the Outcome of Transplant: A Single Center Experience.

The main focus of the first study is the evaluation of Rapid On-Site Evaluation (ROSE) during Conventional and Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) for diagnosing mediastinal lymphadenopathy and lung cancer. The prospective study of 60 cases showed that ROSE improved diagnostic accuracy to 100%, compared to 66.7% without ROSE, by reducing nondiagnostic specimens and unnecessary procedures. Another study assessed pulmonary complications in 150 Egyptian bone marrow transplantation recipients, finding that 48% developed pulmonary complications, with bacterial pneumonia being the most common and a significant contributor to mortality, especially within the first 100 days post-transplant. A third study investigated the clinical significance of IL-6 gene polymorphism on erythropoietin responsiveness in hemodialysis patients, reporting no significant difference in IL-6 genotype frequencies between patients and controls.