Pulmonary Vein Thrombosis Treated Successfully by Thrombectomy After Bilateral Sequential Lung Transplantation: Report of a Case |
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| Authors: | Itaru Nagahiro Matthew Horton Michael Wilson Jayme Bennetts Philip Spratt Allan R. Glanville |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Cancer and Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan, JP;(2) Lung Transplant Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia, AU |
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| Abstract: | We report the case of a 35-year-old man in whom an acute pulmonary vein thrombosis developed following bilateral sequential lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis. The thrombus was detected by transesophageal echocardiography 12 h after transplantation and an emergency thrombectomy was successfully performed. Received: March 29, 2002 / Accepted: September 3, 2002 Reprint requests to: I. Nagahiro |
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| Keywords: | Pulmonary vein thrombosis Lung transplantation Thrombectomy |
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