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Unlabelled: A 48-year-old man was admitted for medical management of recurrent (C-dif) colitis. One month prior to presentation, he underwent right thoracotomy and lower lobectomy for a carcinoid tumor at another hospital. His postoperative course was complicated by C-dif colitis, gastroesophageal reflux, and epigastric pain.
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January 2018
Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Introduction: Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia (TDH) is one of the critical complications resulting from penetrating chest trauma. The rate of undiagnosed TDH equivocates 12-60%. The significant part of complications happens 1-4 years after the primary damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpontaneous hemothorax during general anesthesia.
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December 2009
Department of Anesthesiology, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ, 07039, USA.
We report a case of spontaneous hemothorax in a healthy 27-year-old man undergoing elective reconstruction of the right anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) under general anesthesia. In the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), the patient became hypotensive and tachycardic with mid-sternal chest discomfort. A chest roentgenogram revealed an almost complete opacification of the right hemithorax.
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J Heart Lung Transplant
December 1994
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
A 24-year-old man with cystic fibrosis and marked reduction of volume of the left hemithorax caused by skeletal asymmetry and mediastinal shift underwent successful right single lung transplantation with simultaneous left pneumonectomy. Despite significant preoperative microbiologic contamination, it proved possible to sterilize the pneumonectomy space and no airway complications occurred. Good long-term results have been achieved, and the historic assumption that single lung transplantation is unsuitable for patients with septic lung disease is challenged.
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