Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplantation in a patient with persistent severe porto-pulmonary arterial hypertension following liver transplantation

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 777-778

  Wiklund, Lars ^a   Haraldsson, Åsa ^a   Selimovic, Nedim ^a   Kjellman, Ulf ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ECMO; Lung transplantation; PAH; Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; FIBRINOGEN; ILOPROST; PROSTACYCLIN; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; JAUNDICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PLASMA; PORTOPULMONARY HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOCK; STERNOTOMY; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79954622150     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.08.023     Document Type: Article

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