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Continuous positive airway pressure ventilation during whole lung lavage for treatment of alveolar proteinosis -A case report and review of literature

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare disease that affects young population usually in the age group of 20-40 years, characterized by the deposition of lipoproteinacious material in the alveoli secondary to abnormal processing of surfactant by macrophages. We report a case of a 15-year-old...

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Autores principales: El-Dawlatly, Abdelazeem, Hajjar, Waseem, Alnassar, Sami, Alsafar, Reem, Abodonya, Ahmed
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21655022
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.76475