Fibrosing mediastinitis as a rare mechanism of pulmonary oedema in sarcoidosis

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 455-456

  Yangui, F ^a,b   Battesti, J P ^a   Valeyre, D ^a   Kheder, A B ^b   Brillet, P Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b ABDERRAHMAN MAMI HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; OXYGEN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CUTANEOUS SARCOIDOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FIBROSING MEDIASTINITIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; JUGULAR VEIN; LETTER; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM MASS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SARCOIDOSIS; STEROID THERAPY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN DILATATION; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MEDIASTINITIS; OXYGEN; PULMONARY EDEMA; PULMONARY VEINS; SARCOIDOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76149139461     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00132909     Document Type: Letter

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