POSTOPERATIVE WATER-BALANCE AND PULMONARY COMPLICATION

Postoperative pulmonary hypertension: etiology and treatment of a dangerous complication.

Postoperative pulmonary hypertension is a challenging and feared complication of many types of surgery, including lung and heart transplantation, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, congenital-heart-disease repair, and others. The most severe manifestation is acute right heart syndrome, characterized by right heart failure and cardiovascular collapse-a daunting therapeutic challenge associated wit...

Young Male’s Post Appendectomy Complication of Pulmonary Thromboembolism

The main goal of this report was to share with clinicians an atypical presentation of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) in a young male`s post-appendectomy, whom he had no significant predisposing factors for such disease. The case also introduced for re-examining the challenges of PTE clinical manifestations which may mimic other differential diagnosis. PTE is an abrupt blockage of the pulmonary...

Water balance and hyponatraemia.

Acute Postoperative Negative Pressure Pulmonary Edema as Complication of Acute Airway Obstruction: Case Report

Acute postoperative negative pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) is a respiratory complication due to acute airway obstruction (UAO) that occurs shortly after extubation of patients who under general anesthesia (incidence 0.05 to 0.1%) Usually, this complication develops in healthy young patients, capable of generating high negative intrathoracic pressures (NIP), which is the catalyst in the pathop...

Human Water and Electrolyte Balance