Persistent Pneumothorax after Post-Pneumonic Empyema

Persistent late post-pneumonectomy spontaneous pneumothorax: a challenging case.

Post-pneumonectomy spontaneous pneumothorax is fortunately a very rare condition. We describe herein a late spontaneous right pneumothorax case occurring in a post-pneumonectomy patient and treated by thoracotomic bullectomy.

Post-tuberculosis chronic empyema of the "forty years after".

The authors present 110 cases of patients hospitalized in the last 5 years, with long-term disabling sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis. Twelve out of them (= 10.9%) suffered from post-tuberculous chronic empyema, with an average latency period of 44.83 years between the acute tuberculous illness and the clinical manifestation of the empyema. Nine of the patients had been treated with collapsot...

Empyema complicating closed intrapleural pneumonolysis and artificial pneumothorax.

Despite many viscissitudes, pneumothorax is still the most important collapse measure in pulmonary tuberculosis. Its accessory procedure, closed intrapleural pneumonolysis, has increased greatly in usefulness and popularity and is considered to have very few complications. The most important one is tuberculous empyema which, in various published series’’#{176} ranges from zero to 26 per cent wi...

Bilateral spontaneous persistent open pneumothorax with chylothorax.

Demystifying the persistent pneumothorax: role of imaging

Evaluation for pneumothorax is an important indication for obtaining chest radiographs in patients who have had trauma, recent cardiothoracic surgery or are on ventilator support. By definition, a persistent pneumothorax constitutes ongoing bubbling of air from an in situ chest drain, 48 h after its insertion. Persistent pneumothorax remains a diagnostic dilemma and identification of potentiall...