Risk factors for pneumothorax include male sex, height, smoking and underlying lung conditions. The reported causes of bilateral trauma, tumor, iatrogenic causes. Complications Respiratory failure or arrest, Pneumoperitoneum, Pyopneumothorax, Pneumohemothorax, Pneumopericardium, Bronchopulmonary fistula, damage to the neurovascular bundle during tube thoracostomy pain skin infection at site tho...

An elderly female aspirated a donut and subsequently had loss of consciousness and cardiopulmonary arrest. Family members performed chest compressions until emergency medical services arrived and resuscitated the patient with an adequate heart rate and blood pressure. On hospital admission, the patient was nonresponsive on a mechanical ventilator. Cardiac auscultation revealed distant heart ton...

Below we present a case of a young man with symptoms of progressive weakness, fever, cough, rapid decrease in body weight and the presence of a tumor in the left axillary region. The chest radiography and echocardiography revealed gas bubbles in the pericardium. The more detailed diagnostics and computed tomography of the chest showed an infiltration of the left lung cavity and a fistula among ...

Peritoneo-pericardial diaphragmatic hernia is the rarest of all forms of herniation of abdominal organs through the diaphragm. Only 10 cases have been previously reported. With the exception of three, all were diagnosed after death. Of the three cases diagnosed during life two were diagnosed during operation but the other was diagnosed pre-operatively. The present case to be reported, which con...