naa a22 4500 510727565 CHVBK 20180411082941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11748-012-0112-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11748-012-0112-5 Contralateral pneumothorax in bullous lung after pneumonectomy: report of two cases [Elektronische Daten] [Masashi Furukawa, Takahiro Oto, Shinichi Toyooka, Junichi Soh, Masaomi Yamane, Shinichiro Miyoshi] Contralateral pneumothorax after pneumonectomy is potentially fatal. We experienced two cases of right pneumothorax after left pneumonectomy in which the patients had multiple bullae in the right lung. Case 1 involved a 49-year-old man with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who underwent left pneumonectomy after induction chemoradiotherapy. Eleven months after surgery, he had pneumothorax and was treated with chest tube drainage and pleurodesis. He was discharged but died of recurrent pneumothorax 1month later. Case 2 involved a 57-year-old man with NSCLC who had left pneumonectomy. Five months after surgery, he had pneumothorax and was treated with chest tube drainage. Because of prolonged air leak, ligation of the ruptured bulla was performed with a percutaneous cardiopulmonary support system on standby. No pneumothorax recurrence occurred for 2years. Although management of pneumothorax after pneumonectomy is challenging, surgical intervention may be useful and necessary especially when there is high risk of recurrent pneumothorax. The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, 2012 Pneumonectomy nationallicence Pneumothorax nationallicence Bulla nationallicence Ligation nationallicence Pleurodesis nationallicence Furukawa Masashi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut Oto Takahiro Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut Toyooka Shinichi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut Soh Junichi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut Yamane Masaomi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut Miyoshi Shinichiro Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Springer Japan 61/1(2013-01-01), 35-37 1863-6705 61:1<35 2013 61 11748 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-012-0112-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-012-0112-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Furukawa Masashi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Oto Takahiro Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Toyooka Shinichi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Soh Junichi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yamane Masaomi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Miyoshi Shinichiro Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700-8558, Okayama, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Springer Japan 61/1(2013-01-01), 35-37 1863-6705 61:1<35 2013 61 11748 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer