Hyperacute rejection in single lung transplantation - Case report of successful management by means of plasmapheresis and antithymocyte globulin treatment

Transplantation

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 649-651

  Bittner, Hartmuth B ^a   Dunitz, Jordan ^b   Hertz, Marshall ^b   Bolman III, Morton R ^a   Park, Soon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; HLA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0035868296     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200103150-00012     Document Type: Article

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