Successful Resection of Rapidly Growing Cavitary Infarction After Pulmonary Emboli.

Abstract

Pulmonary cavitation rarely occurs after pulmonary infarction. Compared with bland infarction, infectious cavitary infarction has a higher mortality rate and requires an aggressive surgical approach to improve the outcome. We herein report a cavitary infarction with Pseudomonas infection that rapidly and destructively grew after the development of bilateral pulmonary emboli despite administration of anticoagulation therapy with antibiotics. The pulmonary infarction was successfully resected by right upper lobectomy.