Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: We present a case of a 79 year old Caucasian Greek female with multiple acute and chronic diseases that in conjunction led to a critical condition. CASE PRESENTATION: She had a chronic iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration, chronic severe kyphoskoliosis and an acute thoracic trauma due to...

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Autores principales: Hountis, Panagiotis, Moraitis, Sotirios, Dedeilias, Panagiotis, Antonopoulos, Nikolaos, Toufektzian, Levon, Douzinas, Mattheos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19040741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-358
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author Hountis, Panagiotis
Moraitis, Sotirios
Dedeilias, Panagiotis
Antonopoulos, Nikolaos
Toufektzian, Levon
Douzinas, Mattheos
author_facet Hountis, Panagiotis
Moraitis, Sotirios
Dedeilias, Panagiotis
Antonopoulos, Nikolaos
Toufektzian, Levon
Douzinas, Mattheos
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description BACKGROUND: We present a case of a 79 year old Caucasian Greek female with multiple acute and chronic diseases that in conjunction led to a critical condition. CASE PRESENTATION: She had a chronic iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration, chronic severe kyphoskoliosis and an acute thoracic trauma due to a falling. We decided to perform an operation for the diaphragmatic eventration and the flail chest on this patient in the hope of improving her respiratory capacity. CONCLUSION: Managing one chronic (eventration) and one acute (flail chest) thoracic disorder would restore normal mechanical properties of the thoracic cavity, although none of these diseases would be managed surgically as separate entities.
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spelling pubmed-26333402009-01-31 Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report Hountis, Panagiotis Moraitis, Sotirios Dedeilias, Panagiotis Antonopoulos, Nikolaos Toufektzian, Levon Douzinas, Mattheos Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: We present a case of a 79 year old Caucasian Greek female with multiple acute and chronic diseases that in conjunction led to a critical condition. CASE PRESENTATION: She had a chronic iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration, chronic severe kyphoskoliosis and an acute thoracic trauma due to a falling. We decided to perform an operation for the diaphragmatic eventration and the flail chest on this patient in the hope of improving her respiratory capacity. CONCLUSION: Managing one chronic (eventration) and one acute (flail chest) thoracic disorder would restore normal mechanical properties of the thoracic cavity, although none of these diseases would be managed surgically as separate entities. BioMed Central 2008-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2633340/ /pubmed/19040741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-358 Text en Copyright © 2008 Hountis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Hountis, Panagiotis
Moraitis, Sotirios
Dedeilias, Panagiotis
Antonopoulos, Nikolaos
Toufektzian, Levon
Douzinas, Mattheos
Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report
title Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report
title_full Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report
title_fullStr Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report
title_short Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report
title_sort bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19040741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-358
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