OBJECTIVE Welding of lung tissue is a new radio-frequency surgical method that allows sealing pulmonary tissue without overheating and damaging the tissue. The objective of the research was to study the results of sealing the lung tissue in a non-resectional procedure for spontaneous pneumothorax comprising ablation of bullae via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). METHODS We present...

BACKGROUND Air embolism into the systemic arterial circulation secondary to pulmonary barotrauma has rarely been reported. Herein, we report the clinical course of an extremely rare presentation of cerebral air embolism likely due to ruptured pulmonary bullae during commercial air travel. CASE REPORT A 65-year-old man suddenly became unconscious during an airplane descent. Upon landing, he was ...

Bullous lung disease is an entity characterized by the presence of bullae in one or both the lung fields, with normal intervening lung.1,2 On the other hand, bullous emphysema is the presence of bullae in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and is characterized by the presence of centrilobular emphysema in the nonbullous lung.3–5 To select patients who are more likely t...

Vanishing lung syndrome (VLS) is a rare and distinct clinical syndrome that usually affects young men. VLS leads to severe progressive dyspnea and is characterized by extensive, asymmetric, peripheral, and predominantly upper lobe giant lung bullae. Case reports have suggested an additive role of marijuana use in the development of this disease in young male tobacco smokers. We herein report a ...