Anaesthetic management for children with alveolar proteinosis using extracorporeal circulation. Report of two cases.

Authors :: Lippmann M
Mok MS
Wasserman K
Source :: British journal of anaesthesia [Br J Anaesth] 1977 Feb; Vol. 49 (2), pp. 173-7.
Publication Year :: 1977
Abstract: 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.

Subjects :: Child
Child, Preschool
Humans
Hypoxia etiology
Infant
Male
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis complications
Therapeutic Irrigation
Anesthesia methods
Extracorporeal Circulation
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis surgery

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