Recovery of cardiac function after living-donor lung transplantation in a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 294-296

  Kusano, Kengo Fukushima ^a   Hiroshi, Date ^b   Hideki, Fujio ^a   Katsumasa, Miyaji ^a   Hiromi, Matsubara ^a   Itaru, Nagahiro ^b   Toru, Satoh ^c   Nobuyoshi, Shimizu ^b   Tohru, Ohe ^a  

^a Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac function; Echocardiography; Living lung transplantation; Primary pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

PROSTACYCLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LIVING DONOR; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LIVING DONORS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0036233747     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.294     Document Type: Article

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