Proximal pulmonary artery aneurysms in patients with pulmonary artery hypertension: Complicated cases

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 1789-1793

  Sakuma, Masahito ^a   Demachi, Jun ^b   Suzuki, Jun ^c   Nawata, Jun ^d   Takahashi, Tohru ^e   Shirato, Kunio ^f  

^a Onagawa Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^c Kurihara Central Hospital   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^f Saito Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dissection; Hemoptysis; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

BERAPROST; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROSTACYCLIN; WARFARIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36248944570     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0187     Document Type: Article

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