Ex Vivo Bilateral Pulmonary Embolectomy for Donor Lungs Prior to Transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2110-2112

  Shihata, Mohammad ^a   Ghorpade, Nitin ^a   Lien, Dale ^a   Modry, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMBOLECTOMY; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; EMBOLECTOMY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REOPERATION; TISSUE DONORS; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 43649088543     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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