MASSIVE PULMONARY COLLAPSE FOLLOWING ANÆSTHESIA WITH CURARE

Experimental massive pulmonary collapse.

Interest in atelectasis has in recent years been revived by the increased recognition of its frequency. It has been demonstrated that complete obstruction of the air passage supplying a unit of the lung which does not also communicate with another air passage will produce atelectasis.'3 It has been shown4 that this is due to absorption by the body fluids of the gases contained in that part of t...

Massive pulmonary collapse during thoracotomy.

A 28-year-old housewife was admitted to hospital in congestive cardiac failure but treatment with digitalis resulted in rapid improvement. She had a past history of attacks of winter bronchitis and rheumatic fever at 12 years of age. Clinical examination suggested that the underlying lesion was stenosis of the mitral valve, and one month later the patient was referred to a thoracic surgeon for ...

massive pericardial effusion in down syndrome with supravalvar pulmonary stenosis associated to left pulmonary collapse

background:  pericardial effusion (pe) in down syndrome (ds) patients  usually occur s   secondary to hypothyroidism,  but  we have   no  report of massive pericardial effusion in   euthyroid   down syndrome patient with  supravalvar  pulmonary stenosis . case presentation:  we  report ed   an   11-month-old  male with down syndrome   with  massive  pericardial  effusion that  had conservative ...

Curare and Curare-like Agents

appears to make no difference to the rate of recovery of bladder accommodation, sensation and contractility, although rapid decompression results in a greater degree of ocdema, congestion and bleeding from the bladder than if it is done slowly. The recovery of bladder function post-operatively has only been investigated in patients who presented with paradoxical incontinence. It would be intere...

Massive collapse of the lung