Pleuropneumonectomy for tuberculous empyema with destroyed lung.

Destroyed lung complicated with empyema

Case report 76 year old woman who went to her local hospital with fever up to 39°C, brownish expectoration, left chest pain and breathlessness that has been increasing in recent weeks. She had a colostomy as a result of an adenocarcinoma colon intervention 18 years ago. She used wheelchair due to an ischemic stroke with paresis of the left lower limb during the postoperative. She had never smok...

Management of tuberculous destroyed lung in Nigeria.

Between 1969 and 1979, 20 patients under-went pneumonectomy for tuberculous destroyed lungs (TDL) at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. Their ages ranged from 9 to 57 years, with an average age of 24 years. The left lung was involved in 16 patients (80 percent) and the right lung in four patients (20 percent). All patients had received treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (...

Tuberculous destroyed lung: radiologic and clinical outcomes with prognostic evaluation

Efficacy of Inhaled Iloprost in Cor Pulmonale and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Tuberculous Destroyed Lung

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the causes of cor pulmonale. Cor pulmonale patients with pulmonary hypertension have a significant lower survival rate than patients without. However, there is no conclusive treatment options in cor pulmonale and pulmonary hypertension associated with COPD until now. We report a patient with cor pulmonale and pulmonary hypertension associat...

A Case of Pulmonary Arterial Thrombosis in a Patient with Tuberculous-destroyed Lung and Pulmonary Hypertension

Address for correspondence: Hye Cheol Jeong, M.D., Ph.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang CHA Hospital, Pochon CHA University, 351, Yatap-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-712, Korea Phone: 82-31-780-6142, Fax: 82-31-780-4800 E-mail: [email protected] Received: Nov. 15, 2007 Accepted: Jan. 15, 2008 결핵성 파괴폐에 의한 폐동맥 고혈압 환자에서 발견된 근위부 폐동맥 혈전증 1...