Round atelectasis is a benign inflammatory condition most frequently observed in patients with asbestos exposure but it can also result from a variety of chronic pleural diseases like infection. It has not previously been described in sarcoidosis. We report the occurrence of round atelectasis in four previously diagnosed sarcoidosis patients who were under follow up at our outpatient clinic. Th...

Pulmonary atelectasis in children was often found to have cleared soon after diagnostic bronchoscopy. Re-ventilation occurred even in children in whom the collapse had resisted the usual methods of treatment during preceding weeks or months. It was, therefore, decided to bronchoscope every child with pulmonary collapse provided the collapse was known to have existed for more than five weeks. In...

Postoperative atelectasis should be avoided in surgical patients with impaired pulmonary function. Nasal high-flow (NHF) therapy delivered by the Optiflow™ system (Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand) is a new, simple device that supplies heated and humidified oxygen gas at >30 L/min via a large-bore nasal cannula. We herein describe a case in which respiratory support with N...

Atelectasis as a complication of bronchial asthma occurs more commonly than is diagnosed or suspected. It is usually of the lobular type and patchy in distribution. This type was first described by Huber and Koesler in 1920.’ Many authors have suggested that status asthmaticus and even death occurring during an attack of asthma are related to lobular atelectasis.2’ Massive atelectasis, on the o...

BACKGROUND There are few studies using animal models in chest physical therapy. However, there are no models to assess these effects in newborns. This study aimed to develop a model of obstructive atelectasis induced by artificial mucus injection in the lungs of newborn piglets, for the study of neonatal physiotherapy. METHODS Thirteen newborn piglets received artificial mucus injection via t...

Bronchoscopy is a commonly used technique in patients with atelectasis due to mucus plugs. We present here the case of an 82-year-old patient with a history of Meige's syndrome who developed acute respiratory failure due to atelectasis of the right upper lobe associated with hospital-acquired pneumonia. The patient had a severely reduced level of consciousness, significant work-of-breathing and...

INTRODUCTION Pleuropulmonary changes are common following coronary artery bypass grafting surgery performed with a saphenous vein graft, with or without an internal mammary artery. The presence of atelectasis or pleural effusions reflects the thoracic trauma. PURPOSE To define the postoperative incidence of changes in the lung and in the pleural space and to evaluate the influence of the trau...

The astounding number of surgical operations performed by physicians today has resulted in a greater awareness of atelectasis, a common postoperative pulmonary complication. Although easily recognized and prevented, atelectasis is frequently overlooked, resulting in serious pulmonary impairmment and occasionally surgical mortality. The word, atelectasis, is derived from the Greek, " atel-ectasi...

During a 10-year period 28 patients with shrinking pleuritis with atelectasis (SPA) were observed and operated upon. This lesion has been given different names in the literature, for instance rounded atelectasis, pleuroma, pulmonary pseudotumour, and lung folding. All patients except two were operated upon because of a diagnosis of pulmonary tumour. However, at operation no tumour was found. Th...