Post-pneumonectomy syndrome in an adult presenting with positional syncope

Cengiz Gebitekin; Ahmet S Bayram

doi:10.1177/021849230601400132

Post-pneumonectomy syndrome in an adult presenting with positional syncope

Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2006 Feb;14(1):e12-3. doi: 10.1177/021849230601400132.

Authors

Cengiz Gebitekin¹, Ahmet S Bayram

Affiliation

¹ Thoracic Surgery Department, Uludag University Medical Faculty, Bursa, Turkey.

PMID: 16432103
DOI: 10.1177/021849230601400132

Abstract

Post-pneumonectomy syndrome is a rare late complication of pneumonectomy, which is due to extreme mediastinal shift and rotation into the pneumonectomy space. Recurrent syncope following a right pneumonectomy in a 21-year-old woman was treated by insertion of an expandable silicone prosthesis into the pneumonectomy space.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Electrocardiography
Female
Humans
Mediastinum / diagnostic imaging
Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
Pneumonectomy / adverse effects*
Postoperative Complications / diagnosis*
Postoperative Complications / surgery
Prostheses and Implants
Rare Diseases
Recurrence
Silicone Elastomers
Sodium Chloride / administration & dosage
Syncope / diagnosis*
Syncope / etiology
Syncope / surgery
Syndrome
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ultrasonography

Substances

Silicone Elastomers
Sodium Chloride