Pulmonary vein thrombosis treated successfully by thrombectomy after bilateral sequential lung transplantation: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 282-284

  Nagahiro, Itaru ^a   Horton, Matthew ^b   Wilson, Michael ^b   Bennetts, Jayme ^b   Spratt, Philip ^b   Glanville, Allan R ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; Pulmonary vein thrombosis; Thrombectomy

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VEIN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY VEINS; THROMBECTOMY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0038556971     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300062     Document Type: Article

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