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A rare cause of respiratory distress after transthoracic oesophagectomy

Transthoracic oesophagectomy is a standard surgical procedure for oesophageal cancer. Because of thoracotomy and lung handling, perioperative pulmonary complications make such procedures challenging. The issues related to respiratory complications may be predicted and managed accordingly. However, w...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Vinod, Garg, Rakesh, Bharati, Sachidanand Jee, Gupta, Nishkarsh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4697248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26755841
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.170036
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author Kumar, Vinod
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description Transthoracic oesophagectomy is a standard surgical procedure for oesophageal cancer. Because of thoracotomy and lung handling, perioperative pulmonary complications make such procedures challenging. The issues related to respiratory complications may be predicted and managed accordingly. However, we report two cases of respiratory compromise caused due to a peculiar iatrogenic component.
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spelling pubmed-46972482016-01-11 A rare cause of respiratory distress after transthoracic oesophagectomy Kumar, Vinod Garg, Rakesh Bharati, Sachidanand Jee Gupta, Nishkarsh Indian J Anaesth Case Report Transthoracic oesophagectomy is a standard surgical procedure for oesophageal cancer. Because of thoracotomy and lung handling, perioperative pulmonary complications make such procedures challenging. The issues related to respiratory complications may be predicted and managed accordingly. However, we report two cases of respiratory compromise caused due to a peculiar iatrogenic component. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4697248/ /pubmed/26755841 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.170036 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kumar, Vinod
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title_short A rare cause of respiratory distress after transthoracic oesophagectomy
title_sort rare cause of respiratory distress after transthoracic oesophagectomy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4697248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26755841
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.170036
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