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PA chest Xray. Second day. A chest tube within the left pleural cavity. Extensive, irregular left lung consolidations and ground glass opacities. The left costophrenic angle is blunt due to a small amount of pleural fluid

PA chest Xray. Second day. A chest tube within the left pleural cavity. Extensive, irregular left lung consolidations and ground glass opacities. The left costophrenic angle is blunt due to a small amount of pleural fluid

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Figure 1. PA chest Xray. First day after admission. A left pneumothorax...
Table 1 . Changes in laboratory parametres during hospitalization
Figure 2. PA chest Xray. Second day. A chest tube within the left...
Figure 3. A chest Xray Third day. Left lung lesions are increased, now...
Figure 5. Chest Xray. FiFth day. Evident partial remission of pleural...
Re-expansion pulmonary oedema and pleural bleeding following suction drainage of pneumothorax
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  • Jun 2011
We present a case of 26 years old man with large spontaneous pneumothorax of about 5 days duration. Application of suction drainage was complicated by unilateral reexpansion pulmonary edema (REPE) and hemothorax developed during first 24 hours of treatment. On thoracotomy multifocal superficial pleural bleeding was seen which was probably attribute...
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... patient received intravenous antibio- od gas analysis using arterialised capillary blood re- vealed hypoxaemia (62 mm Hg) and normocapnia. A chest X-ray (Figure 2) followed by bronchoscopy were performed, which revealed no macroscopic changes in the bronchi and no blood or purulent di- scharge. On the second day of hospitalisation the patient underwent left thoracotomy with the only abnormal finding being "oozing of blood from the pleura, which easily detached from the wall". ...