[Home mechanical ventilation as a treatment of the sequelae of tuberculosis surgery]

E Prats Soro; J Escarrabill Sanglas; E Farrero Muñoz; J Oriol Sabaté; F Manresa Presas

[Home mechanical ventilation as a treatment of the sequelae of tuberculosis surgery]

An Med Interna. 1999 Jan;16(1):35-7.

[Article in Spanish]

Authors

E Prats Soro¹, J Escarrabill Sanglas, E Farrero Muñoz, J Oriol Sabaté, F Manresa Presas

Affiliation

¹ UFISS-Respiratoria, Servicio de Neumología, Hospital de Badalona, Barcelona.

PMID: 10089649

Abstract

Nasal intermittent positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV) has been showed useful for the treatment of chronic respiratory failure in patients with chest wall diseases due to sequelae of tuberculosis. We present a report of a patient with a thoracoplasty and a cavernostomy in situation of chronic respiratory failure. Nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation improved diurnal hypoxaemia and hypercapnia.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract
Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Chronic Disease
Female
Home Care Services*
Humans
Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation*
Lung / surgery
Postoperative Care*
Postoperative Complications / etiology
Postoperative Complications / therapy*
Reoperation
Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy*
Thoracoplasty
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / complications
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / therapy*