Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Tale of Two Unique Cases

We herein present two cases of spontaneous pneumothorax. The first one is occurring in an elderly female who has an extensive history of smoking and an underlying chronic obstructive lung disease, whereas the second case represents a congenital bleb in a male patient who has no other underlying pulm...

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Autores principales: Assaad, Marc, El Gharib, Khalil, Rabah, Hussein, Kassem, Ali, Abou Yassine, Ahmad, Dahabra, Loai, Villa Sanchez, Manuel, Kilkenny, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9840199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36654566
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32544
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author Assaad, Marc
El Gharib, Khalil
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description We herein present two cases of spontaneous pneumothorax. The first one is occurring in an elderly female who has an extensive history of smoking and an underlying chronic obstructive lung disease, whereas the second case represents a congenital bleb in a male patient who has no other underlying pulmonary disorder. Both cases presented to our facility with a spontaneous pneumothorax following pulmonary bleb rupture. Both patients underwent thoracoscopic surgery with subsequent partial pleurectomy and pleurodesis.
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spelling pubmed-98401992023-01-17 Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Tale of Two Unique Cases Assaad, Marc El Gharib, Khalil Rabah, Hussein Kassem, Ali Abou Yassine, Ahmad Dahabra, Loai Villa Sanchez, Manuel Kilkenny, Thomas Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery We herein present two cases of spontaneous pneumothorax. The first one is occurring in an elderly female who has an extensive history of smoking and an underlying chronic obstructive lung disease, whereas the second case represents a congenital bleb in a male patient who has no other underlying pulmonary disorder. Both cases presented to our facility with a spontaneous pneumothorax following pulmonary bleb rupture. Both patients underwent thoracoscopic surgery with subsequent partial pleurectomy and pleurodesis. Cureus 2022-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9840199/ /pubmed/36654566 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32544 Text en Copyright © 2022, Assaad et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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