Fatal cerebral emboli in two recipients of lung transplants from one donor [2]

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2157-2158

  Watanabe, Melanie A ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a   Schulman, Larry L ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; THORACOTOMY; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038112121     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000061226.09113.52     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

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