To facilitate the work of the thoracic surgeon it has become accepted procedure in certain circumstances to collapse the diseased lung being operated upon. To accomplish this, the technique most frequently used by the anaesthetist calls for the insertion of a double lumen endobronchial tube. This makes it possible to isolate the intact dependent lung from the diseased upper one and thus to prev...

Recent changes were introduced in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure children ventilation methods. There are evidences that less aggressive ventilation strategies can improve severe pulmonary injury survival. Experimental trials evidenced a relationship between inappropriate ventilatory measures and delayed acute pulmonary injury improvement, or even worsening. From this, a protective ventilat...

Thoracoplasty has been for many years accepted as the standard collapse operation in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, and as an operation it has undergone surprisingly little change or variation. There have, however, been periodic modifications in technique designed to overcome some of the disadvantages or to enhance some of the advantages of the procedure, but these have proved of litt...

Pulmonary aspergillosis can be divided conveniently into two main types, allergic and saprophytic (Hinson, Moon, and Plummer, 1952). Obstruction of the bronchi by mycelium and eosinophilic inflammatory exudate not uncommonly leads to segmental or lobar collapse, as was again pointed out by Hinson et al. (1952), and more recently by Villar, Pimentel, and Freitas 1, Costa (1962), Golberg (1962), ...

Choke points and airway wall structure in expiratory central airway collapse are poorly defined. Computed tomography, white light bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, vibration response imaging, spirometry, impulse oscillometry, negative expiratory pressure, and intraluminal catheter airway pressure measurements were used in a patient with cough, dyspnea, and recurrent pulmonary infections....

BACKGROUND Compression of the trachea, bronchi, and pulmonary arteries are complications in patients with large thoracic aortic aneurysms. In this case, we report unexpected cardiopulmonary collapse manifested by general anesthesia before surgery in an asymptomatic patient with a large thoracic aortic aneurysm. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 32-year-old man with a 10-cm aneurysm i...