Clinical Experience With a New Removable Tracheobronchial Stent in the Management of Airway Complications After Lung Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 683-688

  Fernandez Bussy, Sebastian ^a   Akindipe, Olufemi ^a   Kulkarni, Varsha ^a   Swafford, Wendy ^a   Baz, Maher ^a   Jantz, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; NITINOL; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS MUCUS; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FRACTURE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIGRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPIROMETRY; STENT; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL STENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOYS; BRONCHI; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 67649117860     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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