Paracorporeal lung assist device: An innovative surgical strategy for bridging to lung transplant in an infant with severe pulmonary hypertension caused by alveolar capillary dysplasia

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Boston, Umar S ^a   Fehr, James ^a,b   Gazit, Avihu Z ^b   Eghtesady, Pirooz ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTACYCLIN;

ARTIFICIAL LUNG; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HOSPITALIZED INFANT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; LUNG DYSPLASIA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NOTE; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; PULMONARY VEIN MALFORMATION;

EID: 84884360599     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.06.014     Document Type: Article

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