BACKGROUND Few studies have assessed the utility of chest ultrasonography in the diagnosis of pneumothorax in India. METHODS Chest ultrasonography was undertaken in 126 haemodynamically stable patients, followed by a chest radiograph within 30 minutes. If pneumothorax was not seen on the chest radiograph, a non-contrast computed tomography of the thorax was performed within 3 hours. The time ...

A case of spontaneous pneumothorax complicating irradiation for bronchogenic carcinoma is presented. Pneumothorax developed in a collapsed lung caused by a central bronchogenic carcinoma. The cause is presumably secondary to either a bronchopleural fistula by tumour or sudden expansion of the lung following irradiation. Various tumours of the lung have been associated with spontaneous pneumotho...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the impact on the outcome of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) of delaying surgery in patients with previous episodes of pneumothorax. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 57 surgical procedures for recurrent primary spontaneous pneumothorax. The cases were grouped according to the medical history. One group comprised patients treated surgically at the first episode...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC Pneumothorax with contralateral destroyed lung is a rare condition. However, the anesthetic management poses signifi cant risks and can be quite challenging because conventional one-lung ventilation (OLV) for wedge resection in pneumothorax with contralateral destroyed lung is impossible. A 69-year-old man with height 167 cm and weight 57 kg was ...

AIM To evaluate the association of quantitative computed tomography (CT) measures of emphysema with the occurrence of pneumothorax after CT-guided needle lung biopsy (NLB) accounting for other risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and sixty-three CT-guided NLBs performed between 2008 and 2013 with available complete chest CT within 30 days were reviewed for the occurrence of post-pr...

This is the fourth update of the guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pneumothorax published by the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR). Spontaneous pneumothorax, or the presence of air in the pleural space not caused by injury or medical intervention, is a significant clinical problem. We propose a method for classifying cases into 3 categories: partial, comple...

BACKGROUND We believe this is the first case report of a pneumothorax being identified using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. This case also illustrates the haemodynamic effect a large pneumothorax can have on right ventricular filling in diastole. CASE PRESENTATION A 26-year-old attended for an interval follow up Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) of his thoracic aorta after a thoracic co-a...

We report a case of spontaneous familial pneumothorax in fraternal twin boys. The twins' family history is remarkable for reactive airway disease and a female sibling also born with spontaneous pneumothorax. The family had no history of connective tissue disorders, renal cancer, or dermatologic diseases. Analysis of the twins' α(1)-antitrypsin (AAT) genotype, phenotype, and serum concentration ...

A 61-year old man presented with a sudden onset of breathlessness. The total left pneumothorax was overlooked on the initial chest radiograph. One month later, the patient had a partial pneumothorax less than 20% on the radiograph, although he did not receive any therapy against pneumothorax, such as oxygen inhalation or needle aspiration. After the observation for one month, the lungs totally ...

In 62 consecutive cases of pneumothorax, suction treatment was applied by a new method using a recently-developed vacuum pump (Pleupump) allowing the quantification of the volume of air through the chest drain. The previous 62 cases of pneumothorax treated with standard suction equipment were used as a control group. The new technique resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the mea...