Pulmonary vein thrombosis treated successfully by thrombectomy after bilateral sequential lung transplantation: report of a case.
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.
Nagahiro
Itaru
I
Department of Cancer and Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Horton
Matthew
M
Wilson
Michael
M
Bennetts
Jayme
J
Spratt
Philip
P
Glanville
Allan R
AR
D000328:Adult; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011667:Pulmonary Veins; D017131:Thrombectomy; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*