Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

Name: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Creator: Alexander Spock
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 1997 English Publisher:American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)Journal:Pediatrics, volume 99, pages 756-756 (issn: 0031-4005, eissn: 1098-4275,

Authors: Alexander Spock;

doi: 10.1542/peds.99.5.756

Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

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To the Editor. I wish to congratulate Dr Mahut and colleagues1 for their excellent review. The authors report the necessity to use extracorporeal oxygenation to perform successful massive lung lavage in infants. My colleagues and I have successfully used total lung lavage in infants and pediatric patients with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.2-5 Two unrelated infants experienced symptoms at 1 month of age, and at 7 months …

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