pulmonary echinococcus granulosus is a parasitic infection found worldwide. patients usually present with cough and/or hemoptysis with pulmonary nodule (s). rarely do they enlarge to such sizes as to present with dyspnea. we report two cases with the largest hydatid cysts of the lung reported up to date: one measuring 24.5 x 19 cm and the other 19.5 x 16.5 cm. these cysts were removed intact wi...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the pulmonary findings at autopsy of blood and bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients. DESIGN Retrospective. SETTING An academic medical center. PATIENTS Seventy-one deceased adult BMT recipients. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS Antemortem and postmortem pulmonary findings. RESULTS The transplants were allogeneic in 39 patients (55%), with a peripheral ...

Pulmonary valve replacement is required after tetralogy of Fallot or surgery performed for relief right ventricular outflow obstruction. Interventional methods are more preferable patient comfort in medical practice. Here we introduce a 14-year-old male who developed complications migration and thrombosis intervention pulmonary replacement, was successfully treated with second operation.

BACKGROUND Most evidence guiding perioperative medical risk management of patients undergoing hip fracture repair focuses on cardiac and thromboembolic risk. Little is known of the relative clinical importance of other complications. OBJECTIVE To systematically map incidence and outcomes of a broad spectrum of medical complications after hip fracture repair. METHODS Retrospective cohort stu...

Patients presenting for surgery, be it on an elective or emergency basis, do so in the hope that the anesthetic will be without risk. Yet complications which arise are not always due to anesthesia. More often, the surgical process and factors intrinsic to the patient are major determinants of outcome. Pre-operative assessment allows review of the patient and the proposed surgery, and formation ...

Introduction The benefit and necessity for prophylactic physiotherapy post operatively remains unclear [1]. Combined with an increased demand on resources, scores to identify those patients who would most benefit are being increasingly used. The SPPOST is a tool to identify patients who are at high risk of developing post-operative pulmonary complications (PPC’s). A previous trial of its implem...

BACKGROUND Postoperative pulmonary complications are associated with significant morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing major surgeries. Acetylcysteine is a known antioxidant and is also used as a mucolytic agent to reduce hypersecretion and the viscosity of mucus secretions by the lung. Several studies have revealed that high doses of N-acetylcysteine can significantly prevent pulmonar...

Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a successful and recognised treatment option for patients with a number of haematological and non-haematological malignant and non-malignant conditions. Pulmonary complications both infectious and non-infectious are common after BMT. Multiple factors are thought to contribute to pulmonary complications, including the type and duration of immunological defect...

The aim of the present article is to review the available clinical data on bronchiolitis obliterans following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The data sources used were the Medline database and references from the identified articles related to bronchiolitis obliterans, noninfectious pulmonary complications and HSCT. HSCT is an important treatment for a variety of malignant and...