General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
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Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · Jul 2008
Case ReportsSuccessful management of postoperative acute respiratory distress syndrome in a patient with lung cancer.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome after pulmonary resection for lung cancer frequently has a lethal outcome. Treatment with a combination therapy of neutrophil elastase inhibitor and steroid administration was used to achieve good control, without impairing lung function, in a patient with postoperative acute respiratory distress syndrome. ⋯ After 10 postoperative days, he had acute respiratory distress syndrome. He was given a corticosteroid and a neutrophil elastase inhibitor, which resulted in rapid improvement without lung dysfunction.
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Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · Jul 2008
Case ReportsPoststernotomy pseudoaneurysm of the internal mammary artery.
We present a case of a 79-year-old man who underwent mitral valve and aortic valve replacement. The patient's postoperative period was almost uneventful. ⋯ Angiography demonstrated that it was a pseudoaneurysm of the left internal manmary artery. The lesion was embolized using coils, which successfully occluded the lesion.