Emergency thoracotomy for massive hemothorax

Dabigatran-Induced Massive Spontaneous Hemothorax

Spontaneous hemothorax due to anticoagulant use is extremely rare in clinical practice. Dabigatran is a novel anticoagulant to prevent stroke or thromboembolic episodes in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. We report on an 83-year-old man who received dabigatran therapy (110 mg twice daily) for 7 months and developed massive spontaneous hemothorax and acute renal failure. The patien...

Massive Spontaneous Hemothorax in a Child with Hemophilia

Massive pulmonary collapse during thoracotomy.

A 28-year-old housewife was admitted to hospital in congestive cardiac failure but treatment with digitalis resulted in rapid improvement. She had a past history of attacks of winter bronchitis and rheumatic fever at 12 years of age. Clinical examination suggested that the underlying lesion was stenosis of the mitral valve, and one month later the patient was referred to a thoracic surgeon for ...

Correction to: Dabigatran-Induced Massive Spontaneous Hemothorax

Page 3, Table 2, 'Renal function indexes at different dates after admission': The cell entry in column 2, detailing the patient's urea concentration (μmol/L) on Day 1.

An unusual cause of massive hemothorax.

terval and tend to convert it into an RP interval. Antegrade block (depression of the impulse conduction to the ventricle) will prolong PR interval and tend to convert an RP into a PR interval. They reported one case with antegrade block, the PR interval measuring 0.18 sec. Vakil3 reported two cases of atrioventricular nodal rhythm with antegrade block. One of them, an elderly, hypertensive pat...