A case of Fulminant Mixed Cryoglobulinemia Developing After Atrial Myxoma Resection

Japanese Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 168-174

  Takeishi, Michio ^a   Mimori, Akio ^a   Adachi, Daisuke ^a   Arai, Eiichi ^a   Suzuki, Teruhiko ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypothermia surgery; Mixed type vernalemia; Nhalation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON; CRYOANESTHESIA; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FATALITY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COLON; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33646344715     PISSN: 09114300     EISSN: 13497413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2177/jsci.24.168     Document Type: Article

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