OBJECTIVE To evaluate the occurrence and risk of pulmonary complications in children who underwent pre-and postoperative physiotherapeutic intervention in cardiac surgeries, as well as to compare these patients to those who underwent only postoperative physiotherapeutic intervention. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was performed with 135 patients from 6 years of age and younger with con...

POSTOPERATTVE HYPOXAEMIA following anaesthesia has been attributed mainly to two causes; venous admixture (shunt component) and variation in ventilationperfusion ratios (distribution component). In order to assess quantitatively the role played by the latter factor, the method of breathing 100 per cent oxygen has been employed by many investigators.This method is based on the fact that the diff...

INTRODUCTION Polytrauma often results in significant hypoxemia secondary to direct lung contusion or indirectly through atelectasis, systemic inflammatory response, large volume fluid resuscitation and blood product transfusion. In addition to causing hypoxemia, atelectasis and acute lung injury can lead to right ventricular failure through an acute increase in pulmonary vascular resistance. Me...

Atelectasis was reported as a favorable prognostic sign of pulmonary carcinoma; however, the underlying mechanism in those patients is not known. In this study, we aimed to investigate prospectively the potential impact of atelectasis and/or obstructive pneumonitis (AO) on survival and the relation between atelectasis and some laboratory blood parameters. The study was conducted on 87 advanced ...

Leiomyosarcoma is a cancer that can affect the soft tissues or organs. The standard treatment is complete tumor resection. Prognosis is difficult to predict and distant metastases can occur after a long disease-free period. Lung metastases are common but metastasis to the main bronchi with pulmonary atelectasis is very rare. We describe 2 cases of pulmonary atelectasis and obstructive pneumonit...