A Successful Bilateral Lung Transplantation in a Patient with High Panel Reactive Antibody and Positive Cross Matching
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A Successful Bilateral Lung Transplantation in a Patient with High Panel Reactive Antibody and Positive Cross Matching
A 44-year-old pregnant female patient gave stillbirth while being treated for pneumonia. She developed acute respiratory failure, which resulted in mechanical ventilator support. Diagnostic lung biopsy revealed a cryptogenic organizing pneumonia. The patient's condition deteriorated and a venous-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was placed. She was listed for lung transplantation. Beca...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2233-601X,2093-6516
DOI: 10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.4.420