The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of electrocardiography (ECG) abnormalities in subjects with spontaneous pneumothorax. Forty consecutive patients (mean age 43.7 +/-19.1 years) with spontaneous pneumothorax participated in the study. There were 22 cases of left-sided and 18 cases of right-sided pneumothorax. The mean relative volume of pneumothorax was 51.4 +/-24.7% according ...

background: contralateral axillary metastasis (cam) is a rare entity in patients with breast cancer which can occur during the primary breast cancer or its follow-up. different treatment modalities include surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, but there is no agreement on them. in our review, we found 12 series with available data, 82 patients with synchronous or metachronous contralateral a...

The intraoperative progression of a simple or occult pneumothorax into a tension pneumothorax can be a devastating clinical scenario. Routine use of prophylactic thoracostomy prior to anesthesia and initiation of controlled ventilation in patients with simple or occult pneumothorax remains controversial. We report the case of a 75-year-old trauma patient with an insignificant pneumothorax on th...

Pneumothorax is a common complication in cystic fibrosis and is associated with worsening of lung function. However, bilateral simultaneous pneumothorax in cystic fibrosis is a rare condition. We describe the case of a 17-year-old female with cystic fibrosis who presented with spontaneous pneumothorax. Clinically, she presented right-sided chest pain and progressive breathlessness. The pneumoth...

Most accounts of pneumothorax have been given from large hospitals drawing selected patients from a wide area or specializing in diseases of the chest. But the incidence of pneumothorax in a community and particularly the aetiological factors concerned in an unselected series have not been investigated. In this paper every known case of pneumothorax coming under observation at the Bedford Gener...

A pneumothorax is defined as the presence of air between visceral and parietal pleura that leads to lung collapse. The term was used in the doctoral thesis of the French physician Itard in 1803, although the presence of an abnormal collection of air and fluid within the chest might have been inferred as early as the fifth century BC by physicians in ancient Greece who practiced the so-called Hi...

This study aimed to investigate the efficacies and complications associated with the 7F catheter inserted in patients with pneumothorax in the emergency room and to compare the results for primary and secondary pneumothorax. From June 2006 to May 2008, 200 patients with primary or secondary pneumothorax treated with a 7F catheter were enrolled. The primary endpoint was the immediate success rat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Pneumothorax is common in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. In our NICU, we noted an above average incidence of pneumothorax compared with similar NICUs based on Vermont Oxford Network benchmarking. The quality improvement project was designed to decrease the incidence of pneumothorax in VLBW infants in a tertiary care NICU. METHODS The project was divided into 2 ...

A series of 186 patients with blunt chest trauma was studied with transthoracic ultrasonography to diagnose pneumothorax and to evaluate its size and location. The results were compared with bedside chest radiography and spiral CT scan. The prevalence of pneumothorax on CT scan was 56/186 (30.1%). Pneumothorax was proven on radiography in 30/56 cases without false positive results: "radiographi...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous pneumothoraxes constituted 1/1000 hospital admissions. They are particularly one of life threatening health issues in combination with bilateral pneumothorax, tension pneumothorax, repertory failure or COPD. OBJECTIVES The cases of spontaneous pneumothorax represent a significant portion of the patients profile within the chest surgery clinics. The risk of recurrent pne...