Pneumothorax pada COVID-19 memerlukan penanganan segera untuk mencegah mortalitas dan morbiditas. Pencitraan radiologi foto polos thorax CT (computed tomography) scan merupakan modalitas imaging yang sering digunakan deteksi dini beserta pneumothorax. Pemasangan chest tube menjadi pilihan pneumothorax COVID-19. Pleurodesis bulektomi alternatif tindakan pembedahan definitif refrakter atau persis...

Poland's syndrome is an uncommon congenital anomaly of the chest wall characterized by the absence of the pectoralis major muscle and other nearby musculoskeletal components. Many associated aberrations over the thoracic cage, intrathoracic organs, and upper limbs have been reported. However, spontaneous pneumothorax in these patients has not been reported. Here, we describe two patients with b...

Lung transplant patients commonly undergo transbronchial biopsy to evaluate for rejection. Post-biopsy radiographs are used to exclude pneumothorax, one of the most common major complications. We report a lung transplant patient who developed a pneumothorax 5 months after transbronchial biopsy, with multiple intervening chest computed tomograms documenting that the pneumothorax developed from t...

The incidence of pneumothorax in HIV-infected children has not been reported. In adults with AIDS, pneumothorax has been described exclusively in association with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). We report the cases of three children with AIDS, one with lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) without evidence of PCP and two with PCP, all of whom developed spontaneous pneumothorax (SP). On ...

BACKGROUND Reexpansion pulmonary edema (REPE) is known as a rare and fatal complication after tube thoracostomy. OBJECTIVES We investigated the risk factors for the development of REPE in patients with spontaneous pneumothorax. METHODS We selected patients who were diagnosed with spontaneous pneumothorax and were initially treated with tube thoracostomy between August 1, 2003 and December 3...

PURPOSE We aimed to assess the correlation between pulmonary hemorrhage and pneumothorax in computed tomography (CT)-guided transthoracic fine needle aspiration (TTFNA), particularly its possible value as protection against the development of pneumotorax. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the CT images of 538 patients (364 males and 174 females, mean age 70 years, range 36-90 years) who under...

Material analysed For this purpose, out of our series of 3,657 patients in whom artificial pneumothorax has been tried, we have studied certain points in 781, that is, in all patients in whom artificial pneumothorax has been attempted in the period from 1st January, 1940 to 31st December, 1943, and who have completed their treatment in the institution and have been discharged. Of these 781 case...

OBJECTIVE To explore the operational procedures, indications, and the long-term results of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in the treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax. METHODS One hundred seventy three cases of spontaneous pneumothorax treated with VATS in our hospital between 1995 and 2001 were analyzed. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) was found in 157 cases and secondary...

The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in primary and secondary spontaneous pneumothoraces. Over a 37-month period, 107 videothoracoscopic interventions were performed to treat spontaneous pneumothorax in 105 patients, 78 men and 27 women, whose average age was 28 years.Indications for surgery included recurrent ipsilateral pneumothorax (47...

INTRODUCTION Computed tomography (CT)-guided lung biopsy is commonly used to make a histological diagnosis for pulmonary lesions. Its most common complication is pneumothorax. While it is thought that CT-guided lung biopsy should be avoided in patients with emphysema, however, there is no scientific report documenting the relationship the occurrence of pneumothorax and the severity of emphysema...