Airway complications and management after lung transplantation: Ischemia, dehiscence, and stenosis

Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-93

  Santacruz, Jose Fernando ^a   Mehta, Atul C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway complications; Bronchial stenosis; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID;

ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHIAL DEHISCENCE; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHOPLASTY; BRONCHUS DISEASE; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WOUND DEHISCENCE; YAG LASER;

BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TRACHEOBRONCHOMALACIA;

EID: 58549114182     PISSN: 15463222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/pats.200808-094GO     Document Type: Review

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