Pleural Effusion or Main Left Bronchus Mucus Obstruction: To Drain or Not to Drain? Decision-Making for Young Surgeon on Call

Mucous plugs occur in a number of pulmonary conditions. Central right or left bronchus mucus plug causes complete pulmonary collapse making it an emergency life-threatening case. We describe the case of an 80-year-old man that, in postoperative period after a urological intervention, has had a progr...

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Autores principales: Coco, Danilo, Leanza, Silvana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5829320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3180575
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description Mucous plugs occur in a number of pulmonary conditions. Central right or left bronchus mucus plug causes complete pulmonary collapse making it an emergency life-threatening case. We describe the case of an 80-year-old man that, in postoperative period after a urological intervention, has had a progressive tachypnea and dyspnea during hospitalization for urological problems. Young surgeon on call was called.
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spelling pubmed-58293202018-03-21 Pleural Effusion or Main Left Bronchus Mucus Obstruction: To Drain or Not to Drain? Decision-Making for Young Surgeon on Call Coco, Danilo Leanza, Silvana Case Rep Radiol Case Report Mucous plugs occur in a number of pulmonary conditions. Central right or left bronchus mucus plug causes complete pulmonary collapse making it an emergency life-threatening case. We describe the case of an 80-year-old man that, in postoperative period after a urological intervention, has had a progressive tachypnea and dyspnea during hospitalization for urological problems. Young surgeon on call was called. Hindawi 2018-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5829320/ /pubmed/29564189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3180575 Text en Copyright © 2018 Danilo Coco and Silvana Leanza. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Pleural Effusion or Main Left Bronchus Mucus Obstruction: To Drain or Not to Drain? Decision-Making for Young Surgeon on Call
title_full Pleural Effusion or Main Left Bronchus Mucus Obstruction: To Drain or Not to Drain? Decision-Making for Young Surgeon on Call
title_fullStr Pleural Effusion or Main Left Bronchus Mucus Obstruction: To Drain or Not to Drain? Decision-Making for Young Surgeon on Call
title_full_unstemmed Pleural Effusion or Main Left Bronchus Mucus Obstruction: To Drain or Not to Drain? Decision-Making for Young Surgeon on Call
title_short Pleural Effusion or Main Left Bronchus Mucus Obstruction: To Drain or Not to Drain? Decision-Making for Young Surgeon on Call
title_sort pleural effusion or main left bronchus mucus obstruction: to drain or not to drain? decision-making for young surgeon on call
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5829320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3180575
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