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 Stay up to date with official standards and guidelines documents from ISHLT at ISHLT.org. For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt. Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.