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- Title
Application of Sulfur Hexafluoride into Pleural Space Reduced Pulmonary Shunt in Chronically Atelectatic Lobe After Sleeve Resection--A Case Report.
- Authors
Uyama, Tadashi; Sumitomo, Masayuki; Kondo, Kazuya; Sakiyama, Shoji; Tanida, Nobuyuki; Monden, Yasumasa
- Abstract
A seventy-three-year-old man had undergone right sleeve upper lobectomy. The bronchial anastomotic site occluded because of granulation that had been treated with yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) laser initially. He refused reoperation or YAG laser surgery at the time of reocclusion of the anastomotic site. He complained of exertional dyspnea, and his blood gas analysis showed hypoxemia. The authors injected sulfur hexafluoride into pleural space of the patient to reduce pulmonary shunt in chronically atelectatic lobes. Blood gas analysis just after injection of sulfur hexafluoride gas into pleural space showed increase of oxygen tension, suggesting decrease in shunting. With the management of pleural space through use of sulfur hexafluoride, he leads a normal daily life without exertional dyspnea.
- Subjects
OLDER men; TEMPORAL lobectomy; LASER surgery; DYSPNEA; HYPOXEMIA; PLEURA diseases
- Publication
Vascular Surgery, 1993, Vol 27, Issue 3, p202
- ISSN
0042-2835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/153857449302700307