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