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To the Editor: Extracorporeal photochemotherapy, or photopheresis, is a technique for modulating cell-mediated immunity that was first described as a successful treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.¹ In 1992, Costanzo-Nordin et al. reported the success of photopheresis as an experimental therapy in eight of nine episodes of acute rejection after heart transplantation.² Our experience is similar, with five of six episodes resolving with photopheresis (unpublished data). We describe three patients with bronchiolitis obliterans and chronic rejection after single-lung transplantation whose pulmonary function stabilized following the initiation of photopheresis.

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