Lobar torsion after lung transplantation - A case report and review of the literature

Artificial Organs

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 551-554

  Shakoor, Hasan ^a   Murthy, Sudish ^b   Mason, David ^b   Johnston, Douglas ^b   Shah, Sonia S ^a   Carrillo, Maria C ^c   Mehta, Atul C ^a,b  

^a Departments of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications of lung transplantation; Lobar torsion; Lung torsion; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; DIAGNOSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

CASE REPORTS; COMPLICATION OF LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; LOBAR TORSION; LUNG TORSION; LUNG TRANSPLANT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GAS EXCHANGE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIA; LOBAR TORSION; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650802819     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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