A 79-year-old man with repeated and massive hemoptysis due to bronchiectasis was admitted to our department for surgery. The patient had undergone left upper lobectomy for pulmonary tuberculosis, and descending aortic replacement for Stanford type B aortic dissection. The patient underwent occlusion of the left main bronchus by suturing through median sternotomy. The reasons we did not choose completion pneumonectomy were advanced age, poor physical condition immediately after hemorrhagic shock, and the difficulty of performing pneumonectomy due to previous surgery and anastomotic aneurysm of descending aorta. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient left the hospital on the 16th postoperative day. The patient did not develop pneumonia or empyema thereafter, but died suddenly of unknown etiology 1.5 years postoperatively. Lung exclusion by suturing a bronchus is thought to be a useful alternative for repeated and massive hemoptysis without pneumonia in a case of difficult lung resection.
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