Evaluation of Postoperative Pain After Cardiothoracic Surgery in Patients With and Without Significant Preoperative Anxiety: A Prospective Observational Study.

Background And Aims: Anxiety plays a distressing role in cardiothoracic operations. It may trigger hemodynamic instability, increased morbidity, and very crucially, postoperative pain and analgesic use. Our aim is to look at the association between anxiety, postoperative pain, and analgesic use.

Intrapulmonary teratoma masquerading as hydatid cyst of the lung.

Intrapulmonary teratoma (IPT) is a rare mediastinal teratoma. IPT arise because of abnormal migration of pluripotent stem cells along the developing lung bud. Patients present with chest pain, hemoptysis, and trichoptysis.