OBJECTIVE Pleurectomy+/-bullectomy by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is an established surgical procedure for pneumothorax. Early ambulation and discharge should be a reasonable goal. This study explores the feasibility of day-case surgery and identifies the obstacles requiring further work to facilitate day-case pneumothorax surgery. METHODS Between June 2007 and May 2008, 16 co...

Veno-venous and veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy is used to support the cardiac and pulmonary systems in the setting of acute failure. Maintaining adequate ECMO flow is crucial for the success of the therapy. Sudden decrease in venous return on ECMO has multiple etiologies, such as intravascular hypovolemia, malposition or kink of the venous cannula, suction occl...

a case with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax was presented. etiology, mechanism, and treatment were discussed on the review of literature. spontaneous pneumothorax is a clinical entity resulting from a sudden non traumatic rupture of the lung. biach reported in 1880 that 78% of 916 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax had tuberculosis. kjergaard emphasized 1932 the primary importance of sub...

intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) is one of the major causes of the cerebral palsy and mental retardation. prevention and early management of these neurologic developmental problems will require determining the perinatal risk factors associated with this clinical entity. pneumothorax increase the risk of ivh, and cause of pneumothorax has an important effect in severity of ivh. this is a prospe...

background: pneumothorax is common and life-threatening clinical condition which may require emergency treatment in emergency medicine departments. objectives: we aimed to reveal the epidemiological analysis of the patients admitted to the emergency department with pneumothorax. material and methods: this case-control and multi-center study was conducted in the patients treated with the diagnos...

Tracheobronchial injuries are closely related to orotracheal intubations and chest traumas. Stabbing injuries are very rare and often life threatening because of the damage to vital structures such as the respiratory tract and large arterial or venous vessels. Early diagnosis and treatment of penetrating neck injuries increase survival rates. We report a case of the tracheobronchial section wit...

conclusions most cases for pneumothorax were consisted of the patients with the primary spontaneous pneumothorax; the patients with recurrent pneumothorax were comprised of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax patients and those of majority secondary spontaneous pneumothorax patients were observed with bullous emphysema profile. by looking at the pertinent literature, there are publications showi...

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...

THERE is no form of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in which such rapid progress has occurred in recent years as collapse therapy. While it came into general use in this country in the form of artificial pneumothorax about 1912, it was only used in the exceptional case for some years. During the writer's experience its use has extended from a small percent of cases with ideal indications t...