Infantile pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with interstitial pneumonia: Bilateral simultaneous lung lavage utilizing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and steroid therapy

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 279-283

  Ito, Tadahiko ^a   Sato, Masamitsu ^a   Okubo, Tadashi ^a   Ono, Iwao ^a   Akabane, Jinzo ^a  

^a Nakadohri General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Intestinal pneumonia; Lung lavage; Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EOSINOPHILIA; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; STEROID THERAPY;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS; STEROIDS;

EID: 0032908585     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.187.279     Document Type: Article

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