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Delayed Chest Closure Assessed by Transesophageal Echocardiogram in Single-Lobe Lung Transplantation
- Source :
- The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 92:2254-2257
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2011.
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Abstract
- A 6-year-old girl with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia successfully underwent living-donor right single-lobe lung transplantation from her mother. Her mother's right lower lobe was 207% bigger than her right chest cavity, and attempting chest closure caused significant compression and narrowing of the right pulmonary vein anastomosis, as assessed by transesophageal echocardiogram. Her chest was temporarily closed without rib approximation. The following day, her chest could be completely closed. The pulmonary vein anastomosis, confirmed by transesophageal echocardiogram, was now patent. Currently, 7 months after the transplantation, she is well without limitations.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Transesophageal echocardiogram
Anastomosis
Pulmonary vein
Positive-Pressure Respiration
Living Donors
medicine
Humans
Lung transplantation
Child
Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
SINGLE LOBE
medicine.disease
Surgery
Transplantation
Female
Radiology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Right chest
Lung Transplantation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00034975
- Volume :
- 92
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....82ecd2084735e1da02e43c70654ce3ba