Successful bilateral lung transplantation for lymphangiomatosis: Case report

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1946-1950

  Kinnier, C V ^a   Eu, J P C ^a   Davis, R D ^a   Howell, D N ^a   Sheets, J ^a   Palmer, S M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; Lymphoproliferative disease; Pretransplant morbidity; Pulmonary disease; Transplant outcome

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHANGIOMATOSIS; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PARACENTESIS; PLEURA THICKENING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RIB FRACTURE; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHANGIOMA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49649120441     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02340.x     Document Type: Article

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