Recurrent inflight chest pain due to a solitary bulla

Ms L is a 47-year-old lady who was referred with severe, left-sided pleuritic chest pain and painful left arm weakness that occurred predictably during consecutive commercial flights. Subsequent investigations diagnosed a large left-sided, isolated bulla. A VATS bullectomy was performed with no comp...

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Autores principales: Echevarria, Carlos, Harrison, Richard N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26057108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.11.009
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description Ms L is a 47-year-old lady who was referred with severe, left-sided pleuritic chest pain and painful left arm weakness that occurred predictably during consecutive commercial flights. Subsequent investigations diagnosed a large left-sided, isolated bulla. A VATS bullectomy was performed with no complications, and a symptomless flight followed. We discuss here the physiological explanation for her symptoms and the treatment of bulla in this unusual case.
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spelling pubmed-39203762014-10-15 Recurrent inflight chest pain due to a solitary bulla Echevarria, Carlos Harrison, Richard N. Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Ms L is a 47-year-old lady who was referred with severe, left-sided pleuritic chest pain and painful left arm weakness that occurred predictably during consecutive commercial flights. Subsequent investigations diagnosed a large left-sided, isolated bulla. A VATS bullectomy was performed with no complications, and a symptomless flight followed. We discuss here the physiological explanation for her symptoms and the treatment of bulla in this unusual case. Elsevier 2011-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3920376/ /pubmed/26057108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.11.009 Text en © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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title_short Recurrent inflight chest pain due to a solitary bulla
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920376/
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