Dextroposition of the left lower lobe after heart-lung transplantation.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Immediately after heart-lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis, a patient had development of a right lower lobe retrocardiac density that persisted on all postoperative chest radiographs. A computed tomographic examination of the thorax performed 3 weeks after surgery showed that there was partial collapse of the left lower lobe in the right hemithorax. The patient required a posterolateral thoracotomy for cure.
Medical subject headings
- Heart-Lung Transplantation
- Lung
- Postoperative Complications
- Pulmonary Atelectasis