STUDY OBJECTIVES Despite advances in the surgical treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax, the timing of surgical intervention continues to be a subject of controversy. We test the hypothesis that CT scanning can help to predict the probability of the occurrence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) by detecting lung bullae. DESIGN Prospective, longitudinal cohort study. PATIENTS AND METH...

Re-expansion pulmonary edema occurs when the lung re-expands after an extended duration of collapse. It is rare with reported incidence between 0% and 1%. We present a case 51-year male who presented breathlessness, cough right-sided chest pain. Chest radiograph showed pneumothorax. After 2 hours tube insertion, patient developed tachypnea severe hypoxemia. HRCT revealed consolidation, ground g...

Material analysed For this purpose, out of our series of 3,657 patients in whom artificial pneumothorax has been tried, we have studied certain points in 781, that is, in all patients in whom artificial pneumothorax has been attempted in the period from 1st January, 1940 to 31st December, 1943, and who have completed their treatment in the institution and have been discharged. Of these 781 case...

The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in primary and secondary spontaneous pneumothoraces. Over a 37-month period, 107 videothoracoscopic interventions were performed to treat spontaneous pneumothorax in 105 patients, 78 men and 27 women, whose average age was 28 years.Indications for surgery included recurrent ipsilateral pneumothorax (47...