Anaesthetic management for children with alveolar proteinosis using extracorporeal circulation. Report of two cases.
This report demonstrates the results following massive simultaneous lavage of both lungs in two brothers suffering from pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with severe hypoxaemia, using partial extracorporeal bypass.
D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011649:Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation