Are you more at risk for pneumonia after a double lung transplant?

Yes: All transplant recipients who take immunosuppressant medications are at increased risk of pneumonia. Lung transplant recipients are at the highest risk of all, particularly from pneumonia caused by viruses or funguses.

Yes: After a lung transplant, the patient is going to be immunosuppressed. That means that the immune system is not going to able to react and defend itself against organisms that cause pneumonias. Thus, you have to be careful and try to avoid contact with people who are sick and avoid large crowds were people do not know that they can make you sick.