[A case of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis--evaluation of a Swan-Ganz catheter in bilateral lung lavage].
Lung lavage, known to be effective for alveolar proteinosis, brings about significant hypoxemia immediately after evacuation of lavage fluid. Impeding blood flow of even a distal branch of a pulmonary artery by using a Swan-Ganz catheter (SGC) successfully prevented this hypoxemia. And this SGC procedure could be safely carried out to make lavage of each lung successively in one day.
Kasuya
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Y
Department of Anesthesiology, Gifu Prefectural Gifu Hospital.
Takeda
T
T
Sakamoto
T
T
Hosono
K
K
Hayakawa
A
A
Takenaka
M
M
D000328:Adult; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000628:therapy*; D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011649:Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis / Q000628:therapy*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000379:methods