Successful Treatment of Unilateral Pulmonary Edema as Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery Complication—Case Presentation
Marius Mihai Harpa, Sânziana Flamind Oltean, Hussam Al Hussein, David Emanuel Anitei, Iulia Alexandra Puscas, Cosmin Marian Bănceu, Mihaly Veres, Diana Roxana Opriș, Radu Alexandru Balau, Horatiu Suciu · 2024
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Marius Mihai Harpa and nine co-authors describe saving a patient whose right lung flooded after keyhole mitral valve surgery. One-sided pulmonary edema is a rare, dangerous complication of operating through the right chest. Their forty-nine-year-old patient, after endoscopic valve repair, suddenly lost oxygen saturation, with watery fluid rising through the breathing tube and a chest film confirming it.
His circulation then collapsed into cardiac arrest. The team restarted his heart and placed him on a heart-lung bypass machine through the leg vessels. They swapped the breathing tube for a double-lumen one and ran two ventilators independently, one per lung, so the flooded side could rest gently. He came off the machine on day five and off the ventilator on day six. The authors admit this complication's cause is still unclear, but present their rescue sequence as a workable template.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marius Mihai Harpa, Sânziana Flamind Oltean, Hussam Al Hussein, David Emanuel Anitei, Iulia Alexandra Puscas, Cosmin Marian Bănceu, Mihaly Veres, Diana Roxana Opriș, Radu Alexandru Balau, Horatiu Suciu |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |