Me-Linh Luong

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Title: Clinical associate professor
Address: Laboratoires du CHUM
CHUM
1000, rue Saint-Denis, Pavillon F
Montréal (Québec)  H2X 0C1
Room: F-06-1102F
Phone: 514-890-8000, ext. 20924 or 20731
Email: me-linh.luong.chum@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

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Research topics

  • Clinical epidemiological studies on fungal infections in the population of patients receiving solid organ transplants
  • Invasive aspergillosis
  • Diagnostic tests for invasive aspergillosis
  • Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and clinical impact of antifungals for the prophylaxis and treatment of invasive aspergillosis


Publications

  • Me-Linh Luong, Charles Filion, Annie-Claude Labbé, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, Stéphane Carignan, Jean Roy, Don Sheppard and Michel Laverdière. Prospective evaluation of clinical utility and pronostic value of broncho-alveolar lavage galactomannan assay in haematology-oncology patients. Diagnostics in Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 2010 Oct;68(2):132-9.
  • Me-Linh Luong, Cornelius J Clancy, Aniket Vadnerkar, Eun Jeun Kwak, Fernanda P Silveira, Mark C Wissel, Kevin J Grantham, Ryan K Shields, Maria Crespo, Joseph Pilewski, Yoshiya Toyoda, Steven B Kleiboeker, Diana Pakstis, Sushruth K Reddy, Thomas J Walsh, M. Hong Nguyen. Comparison of an Aspergillus Real-Time PCR Assay with Galactomannan Testing of BAL Fluid for the Diagnosis of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Lung Transplant Recipients. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2011. 52(10):1218-1226.
  • Me-Linh Luong, Seyed M. Hosseini-Moghaddam, Lianne G Singer, Cecilia Chaparro, Shaf Keshavjee, Neil Lazar, Sassan Azad, Coleman Rotstein, Shahid Husain. Risk factors for voriconazole hepatotoxicity in lung transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. April 2012. Am J Transplant. 2012 Jul;12(7):1929-35.