Fatal hyperammonemia after orthotopic lung transplantation

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 283-287

  Lichtenstein, Gary R ^a,b   Yang, Yu Xiao ^b   Nunes, Frederick A ^b   Lewis, James D ^b   Tuchman, Mendel ^c   Tino, Gregory ^b   Kaiser, Larry R ^b   Palevsky, Harold I ^b   Kotloff, Robert M ^b   Furth, Emma E ^b   Bavaria, Joseph E ^b   Stecker, Mark M ^b   Kaplan, Paige ^d   Berry, Gerard T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FATALITY; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INCIDENCE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18544392597     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-132-4-200002150-00006     Document Type: Article

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