Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with plasma exchange in a patient with alveolar haemorrhage secondary to Wegener's granulomatosis

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 341-342

  Barnes, S L ^a   Naughton, M ^a   Douglass, J ^a   Murphy, D ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXYCYCLINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; JUXTAGLOMERULAR CELL; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; NERVE CONDUCTION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULITIS; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANOXIA; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DYSPNEA; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG DISEASES; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 84858743420     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02720.x     Document Type: Letter

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