A tension pneumothorax is one of the main causes of cardiac arrest in the initial postoperative period after thoracic surgery. Tension pneumothorax and cardiac herniation must be taken into account in hemodynamically unstable patients after pneumonectomy. We report an unusual case of successful treatment of acute tension pneumothorax following cardiac herniation and intrathoracic bleeding after...

A 42-year old male presented with chest pain. Left pneumonectomy had been performed 15 years before for tuberculosis. A chest X-ray showed small left-sided pneumothorax (Fig. 1). A chest computed tomography revealed herniation of the right lung into the contralateral side (‘buffalo chest’) and a bilateral pneumothorax (Fig. 2). With oxygen supplement, chest pain was relieved and the pneumothora...

Reports of spontaneous pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum as a complication coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been increasing. COVID-19 causes inflammatory mainly affecting the respiratory system. Severity varies from asymptomatic pulmonary findings on imaging to acute distress syndrome along with pleural effusions, consolidations pneumothorax. The aim th...

PNEUllOTHORAX DE L'ENFANT  Presentation de 17 cas. Revue de la litterature Par: Marandian M.H., Momenzadhe A., Wali­zade G., Kabiri M., A'skari H. et Movasat M.  Durant deux ans et demi, 17 cas de pneumo­thorax ont ete observes dans le service de Pedia­trie de !'Hospital Pahlavi de l'Univm-site de Teheran:  1)9 de ces malades etaient ages de moins d'un an. Le malade le plus age atteint de pn...

Background/Introduction Pneumothorax can be a complication following chest drain removal. In thoracic surgery, access to the pleural cavity involves a pleurotomy. A chest drain is inserted to allow re-expansion of the lungs post-pleurotomy. This also prevents a tension pneumothorax. Some patients have a residual pneumothorax post-chest drain removal noted on chest radiography. Rates of pneumoth...

Pneumothorax is a rare complication in cancer chemotherapy. We report a case in which a male patient with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) developed repetitive pneumothorax after receiving a combination of the chemotherapeutic drugs gefitinib and amrubicin (GEF + AMR). Both episodes of pneumothorax occurred on the 3rd day of GEF + AMR administration. Tube thoracostomy was performed, ...

In patients presenting with severe dyspnea, several diagnostic challenges arise in distinguishing the diagnosis of pneumothorax versus several other pulmonary etiologies like bullous lung disease, pneumonia, interstitial lung disease, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Distinguishing between large pulmonary bullae and pneumothorax is of the utmost importance, as the acute management is ve...

INTRODUCTION Early detection of pneumothorax in multiple trauma patients is critically important. It can be argued that the efficacy of ultrasonography (US) for detection of pneumothorax is enhanced if it is performed and interpreted directly by the clinician in charge of the patients. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of emergency department clinicians to perform bedside US to de...

BACKGROUND Placing chest tubes to water seal is superior for patients with an air leak, but when a patient has a pneumothorax and an air leak the best chest tube setting is unknown. METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of a prospective database on a consecutive series of patients who had a pneumothorax and air leak on the same day. Patients underwent elective pulmonary resection by one su...

A 39-year-old man was admitted for spontaneous pneumothorax. He underwent pulmonary resection to correct the lesion causing the air leakage, and a pathological diagnosis of pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma was made because we thought that the pneumothorax developed due to the direct rupture of necrotic neoplastic tissue into the pleural cavity. After the operation, the patient received chemother...