• Cirugía española · Dec 2006

    Case Reports

    [Bilateral Chylothorax after delivery: an infrequent case treated with videothoracoscopic talc pleurodesis].

    • Antonio F Honguero Martínez, Antonio Arnau Obrer, David Pérez Alonso, Miriam Estors Guerrero, Carmen M Cortés Alcaide, and Antonio Cantó Armengod.
    • Servicio de Cirugía Torácica. Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia. Valencia. España. tonyhonguero@yahoo.es
    • Cir Esp. 2006 Dec 1;80(6):400-2.

    AbstractBilateral chylothorax after delivery is a highly infrequent entity. We present the case of a 28-year-old woman who developed progressive dyspnea due to bilateral milky pleural effusion several months after delivery. The effusion was found to contain chylomicrons in the biochemical analysis. Initial conservative treatment failed twice and the chylothorax was successfully treated through sequential bilateral videothoracoscopy with an interval of 6 days between the two interventions and pleurodesis with spray talc.

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