Outcomes of Delayed Chest Closure After Bilateral Lung Transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2020-2025

  Force, Seth D ^a   Miller, Daniel L ^a   Pelaez, Andres ^a   Ramirez, Allan M ^a   Vega, David ^a   Barden, Benjamin ^a   Lawrence, E Clinton ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BONE WIRES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULMONARY EDEMA; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646824881     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.01.050     Document Type: Article

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