Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 8 , Pages 1196-1200 , August 2009

Pulmonary hemorrhage: A novel mode of therapy

  • Anna Solomonov

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, POB 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel. Tel.: +972 4 854 2953; fax: +972 4 854 2031.
    • ,
  • Oren Fruchter

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Tzila Zuckerman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Benjamin Brenner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Mordechai Yigla

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Received 24 July 2008 ,Accepted 6 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.02.004

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 8 , Pages 1196-1200 , August 2009

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