Salvage Right Pneumonectomy in a Patient With Bronchial-Pulmonary Artery Fistula After Bilateral Sequential Lung Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1383-1386

  Rea, Federico ^a   Marulli, Giuseppe ^a   Loy, Monica ^a   Bortolotti, Luigi ^a   Giacometti, Cinzia ^a   Schiavon, Marco ^a   Calabrese, Fiorella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; BRONCHIAL ARTERY; BRONCHITIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SALVAGE THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; BRONCHITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 33750634092     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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