Pulmonary artery catheter knotting in a coronary artery bypass surgery patient

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 519-521

  Akhtar, Mohammad Irfan ^a   Hamid, Mohammad ^a   Khan, Fazal Hameed ^a   Naqvi, Hamid Iqil ^a   Gangwani, Amar ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 38449107493     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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