Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Emergency Heart-Lung Transplantation in a Patient With Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 466-468

  Gregoric, Igor D ^a   Chandra, Divay ^b   Myers, Timothy J ^a   Scheinin, Scott A ^a   Loyalka, Pranav ^a   Kar, Biswajit ^b  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; EMBOLECTOMY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG; LUNG SURGERY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ADULT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40949103913     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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