HAEMOPNEUMOTHORAX WITHOUT TRAUMATISM: RECOVERY

Spontaneous haemopneumothorax.

A 32-year-old woman underwent surgical excision of a lump in her left breast in a general surgical unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital. Clinical diagnosis of fibroadenosis was confirmed by frozen section histology. Anaesthesia was uneventful, the patient breathing spontaneously throughout the operation via a face mask. She was well post-operatively and was discharged on the evening of the surgery.

Spontaneous tension haemopneumothorax

We present a patient with sudden onset progressive shortness of breath and no history of trauma, who rapidly became haemodynamically compromised with a pneumothorax and pleural effusion seen on chest radiograph. He was treated for spontaneous tension pneumothorax but this was soon revealed to be a tension haemopneumothorax. He underwent urgent thoracotomy after persistent bleeding to explore an...

Haemopneumothorax related to acupuncture.

Spontaneous haemopneumothorax: a surgical emergency.

We describe two cases of spontaneous haemopneumothorax treated successfully at emergency thoracotomy. We emphasize the importance of torn apical vascular adhesions as a source of intrathoracic haemorrhage in these two cases.

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