Re-expansion pulmonary edema is a potentially life-threatening situation following thoracic surgery of a compromised lung. We report the case of a 24-year-old female scheduled for a resection of a large intrathoracic desmoid tumor that presented with re-expansion pulmonary edema at the conclusion of her surgery and discuss the clinical presentation, mechanism and predictors of this entity and review similar cases reported in the literature.
Efstathia Pistioli, Eleftheria Soulioti, Emmanouil I Kapetanakis, Thrasyvoulos P Michos, Periklis I Tomos, and Tatiana Sidiropoulou.
Second Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Rimini 1, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Dec 16; 58 (12).
AbstractRe-expansion pulmonary edema is a potentially life-threatening situation following thoracic surgery of a compromised lung. We report the case of a 24-year-old female scheduled for a resection of a large intrathoracic desmoid tumor that presented with re-expansion pulmonary edema at the conclusion of her surgery and discuss the clinical presentation, mechanism and predictors of this entity and review similar cases reported in the literature.