Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic treatment for severe asthma using thermal energy to reduce smooth muscle in the bronchial wall. A 47-year-old man underwent BT for uncontrolled severe asthma despite maximal pharmacological treatment. After a third procedure, he experienced hypoxaemia because of complete bilateral upper lobe atelectasis. A pulmonary cyst suddenly emerged in to the ...

Main Outcome Measures: Demographics, hospital length of stay, and in-hospital mortality associated with scoliosis surgery. Results: Of 17 780 reported hospitalizations owing to scoliosis surgery, 437 children (2.5%) had NMD. Compared with children undergoing scoliosis surgery for other indications, children with NMD were more likely to be younger (12.4 vs 14.2 years), male (73.5% vs 38.3%), and...

Patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome undergo a series of operations to separate the pulmonary and systemic circulations. The first of at least 3 operations occurs in the newborn period, with a stage I palliation. The goal of stage I palliation is to provide pulmonary blood flow and create an unobstructed systemic outflow tract. Advances in surgical techniques and intraoperative and pos...

It is well recognized that air-absorption collapse of a iobe of a lung or a whole lung does not necessarily cause arterial anoxia. In the course of our investigation of the role of the anastomoses between the bronchial and pulmonary arteries described by Braus (1934), von Hayek (1940), Verloop (1948), Liebow, Hales, and Lindskog (1949), and Marchand, Gilroy, and Wilson (1950) in disease, we hav...

progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. both general services administration (gsa) and united states department of d...

Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) is a rare entity. Anesthetic management for lobectomy is challenging due to sudden hemodynamic collapse which may occur during induction and ventilatory problems due to hyperinflation of cystic lesions with positive pressure ventilation. We discuss successful anesthetic management of two infants with CPAM posted for pneumonectomy with a brief ment...

In the early stages of his pioneering work with artificial pneumothorax, Forlanini realised that effective collapse of tuberculous lungs was frequently prevented by the presence of adhesions between the visceral and parietal pleurae. He stated that in time the adhesions would often stretch sufficiently to allow a satisfactory collapse, but it was soon found that in many cases cavities remained ...

QUESTION Can the risk of developing postoperative pulmonary complications be predicted after upper abdominal surgery? DESIGN Prospective observational study. PARTICIPANTS 268 consecutive patients undergoing elective upper abdominal surgery who received standardised pre- and postoperative prophylactic respiratory physiotherapy. OUTCOME MEASURES Predictors were 17 preoperative and intraoper...

The biomedical hypothesis proposed here is that the immediate trigger for a yawn is a restricted collapse of a few alveoli in the lungs. The extent of this alveolar collapse may be too small for it to be detected by current X-ray technology, but this technology is continually improving and may soon be good enough to test the hypothesis. In support of the hypothesis, it is shown that yawning can...

Various manifestations after bee sting have been described. Local reactions, such as pain, wheal, flare, edema and swelling, are common and generally self-limiting. Uncommonly manifestations like vomiting, diarrhea, dyspnea, generalized edema, acute renal failure, anaphylactic shock, myocardial infarction, hypotension, collapse, pulmonary hemorrhage, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, and atrial f...