Pulmonary hypertension due to a retained totally implantable venous access device fragment

Chest

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1574-1576

  Espiritu, Joseph D ^a,b   Stolar, Cary G ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary hypertension; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICE;

EID: 34248573426     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.06-1792     Document Type: Article

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