Graft failure caused by pulmonary venous obstruction diagnosed by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography during lung transplantation

Anesth Analg. 2000 Sep;91(3):558-60. doi: 10.1097/00000539-200009000-00010.

Abstract

Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography can be useful to diagnose pulmonary venous anastomotic stenoses during lung transplantation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Blood Pressure / physiology
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung Transplantation / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Transplantation / physiology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Artery / physiology
  • Pulmonary Circulation / physiology
  • Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease / complications*
  • Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease / diagnostic imaging