A 73-year-old man was referred to our hospital after a 2-week history of bloody sputum and cough. Computed tomography (CT) images of the chest showed a mass grouped with mediastinal lymph nodes, and bronchoscopy showed a projecting mass in the right main bronchus. After a transbronchial biopsy, the patient was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma (T4N2M0 stage IIIB). The patient was treated w...

OBJECTIVE To present a multicenter series of 6 patients who developed gastrobronchial fistula (GBF). GBF is a rare subtype of gastric leaks following bariatric surgery, which is the mainstay of treatment for the obesity pandemic. METHODS We retrospectively identified 6 patients with GBF (out of 2,308 cases performed: 0.2%). One patient had undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and 5 had a sleev...

Aortobronchial fistula (ABF) in the setting of aortic coarctation repair is very rare but uniformly fatal if untreated. Endovascular stenting of the descending aorta is now the first-choice approach for ABF presenting with haemoptysis and offers a less-invasive technique with improved outcomes, compared with open repair. We report a case of late ABF occurring following bypass for aortic coarcta...

Management of cryptogenic massive hemoptysis is difficult, and conservative treatment may be inadequate to stop the hemorrhage. Surgery is not a reasonable option because there is no underlying identifiable pathology. This study aimed to investigate the radiologic findings and bronchial artery embolization outcomes in cryptogenic hemoptysis, and to compare the results with non-cryptogenic hemop...

Aortobronchial fistula (ABF) is a rare, late, and usually catastrophic complication that should be suspected in any patient who has undergone a surgical procedure involving descending thoracic aorta. It usually presents as atypical chest pain that is followed by massive hemoptysis and death due to blood loss if emergency surgery is not performed. Our patientwas a 39-year-oldman,whose only notab...

Although the treatment of pulmonary diseases due to nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) requires the long-term use of antibiotics in combination, the treatment success rates are unsatisfactory. We evaluated the clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of 23 patients with NTM lung diseases who had underwent pulmonary resection. The median age of the patients was 45 yr. Of the 23 patients, 10...

A male car driver who sustained polytrauma in a road traffic accident when he was 25 years old, had emergency partial hepatectomy performed for liver laceration, followed by interpositional graft (18 mm woven Dacron) repair for transection of the proximal descending aorta via a left thoracotomy. He also had multiple fractures which were treated conservatively. His postoperative recovery was com...