Diffuse bleeding from the bronchial mucosa on flexible bronchoscopy in lung transplanted patients: 'The hemorrhagic bronchial mucosa syndrome'

Respiration

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 416-419

  Milman, Nils ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Bronchi; Bronchoscopy; Lung transplantation; Petechiae

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; BENDROFLUMETAZIDE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; METOPROLOL; PREDNISOLONE; PROPOFOL; PROTHROMBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMORRHAGIC BRONCHIAL MUCOSAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LARYNGEAL MASK; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHOSCOPY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

EID: 67649957739     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000209337     Document Type: Article

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