Post-pneumonectomy video-assisted thoracoscopic bullectomy using extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2001 Oct;20(4):874-6. doi: 10.1016/s1010-7940(01)00896-x.

Abstract

We describe a case of a patient who, 14 years after a pneumonectomy, required surgery for a life-threatening air-leak following accidental intubation of an emphysematous bulla in his remaining lung. To facilitate treatment by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, veno-venous extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation was employed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pneumonectomy*
  • Pneumothorax / diagnostic imaging
  • Pneumothorax / surgery*
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnostic imaging
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery*
  • Pulmonary Emphysema / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Emphysema / surgery*
  • Reoperation
  • Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed