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Case Reports
Negative pressure post-extubation pulmonary edema complicating appendectomy in a young patient: case report.
- Rodrigo O Perez, Cláudio Bresciani, Carlos E Jacob, Cindy G Perez, Roger B Coser, Luiz F K Honda, and Joaquim J Gama-Rodrigues.
- Colorectal Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. rcindy@uol.com.br
- Curr Surg. 2004 Sep 1;61(5):463-5.
AbstractNegative-pressure pulmonary edema after endotracheal intubation is an uncommon and potentially serious complication of patients undergoing general anesthesia for different surgical procedures. We report a case of a healthy 20-year-old male patient with the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. The patient was submitted to appendectomy under general anesthesia and developed negative-pressure pulmonary edema immediately after extubation. The present paper reports this potentially serious complication illustrating the main radiological findings consistent with alveolar hemorrhage in this setting and the treatment performed.
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