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BACKGROUND Pneumothorax is a potentially dangerous condition which may arise unexpectedly during anaesthesia. The diagnosis is one of exclusion, as initial changes in vital signs (cardiorespiratory decompensation and difficulty with ventilation) are non-specific, and other causes of such changes are more common, whereas local signs may be difficult to elicit, especially without full access to t...

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis is a rare disease characterized by the proliferation of atypical smooth muscle cells. Recurrent pneumothorax frequent complication lymphangioleiomyomatosis. We present case 41-year-old woman who presented with recurrent pneumothorax. Video-assisted thoracic surgery was performed. did not suspect possibility lymphangioleiomyomatosis because presence very few cysts on che...

U 66leté pacientky s terminální chronickou obstrukční plicní chorobou hospitalizované na standardním oddělení byl po náhlé progresi dušnosti skiagramu hrudníku zjištěn pneumotorax, při ultrazvukové kontrole před hrudní drenáží však nebyl pneumotorax nalezen a od drenáže bylo proto upuštěno. Byla zhotovena výpočetní tomografie nálezem syndromu mizející plíce, v...

introduction trauma is the most common cause of death in youngsters. early detection of internal bleeding via imaging in trauma patients is important. the fast-extended method and the extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (efast) evaluates hemothorax and pneumothorax in addition to abdominopelvic bleedings and tamponade. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, after...

Editor—Before the utilization of ultrasound, the complication of pneumothorax was a concern for many anaesthetists performing supraclavicular block (SCB). 2 Technological advances have made ultrasound guidance for regional nerve blocks a standard practice, and when coupled with SCB, have rendered pneumothorax an improbable complication. The incidence of clinicallysignificant pneumothoraxafteran...

related to the cause. For ventilator-associated pneumothorax, the type of treatment is ‘set in stone’: chest tube drainage is required. This was based on a retrospective study in 74 patients that was published almost 4 decades ago [4] , which reported signs of a tension component in 95% and a high mortality rate of 30% if drainage was delayed. However, in the observational study by Wu et al. [5...

Five cases of spontaneous pneumothorax were treated with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). These included four cases of recurrent pneumothorax and one case of persistent pneumothorax. The mean age was 33 years. The identified bullae were eliminated with either endoloop ligation (in one patient) or stapled excision (in four patients). There were no recurrences reported in a mean follo...

A 17-year-old teen was hospitalized with bilateral pneumothorax. After the bilateral lungs were expanded using catheter tubes, he fully recovered and he was discharged from our hospital. He had a history of colon perforation. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) was suspected due to the combination of colon perforation and pneumothorax, and EDS type IV was confirmed after a genetic study identified a c...