Subject: post-pneumonectomy syndrome
Subject: pneumonectomy
Subject: syncope
Subject: prothesis implantation
Subject: mediastinal repositioning
Year: 2022
Type: Article
Title: POST-PNEUMONECTOMY SYNDROME IN ADULT PRESENTING WITH RECURRENT SYNCOPE: A CASE REPORT
Author: Gigovska Dimova, Irena
Author: Ristovski, Vladimir
Author: Prgova, Biljana
Author: Buklioska Ilievska, Daniela
Author: Eftimovska Otovikj, Natasa
Author: Nedeska Minova, Natasa
Abstract: Post-pneumonectomy syndrome is a rare, late complication of pneumonectomy, caused by a mediastinal shift, rotation and deviation of the remaining lung into the contralateral hemithorax, most commonly resulting in symptomatic central airway compression. Case report Recurrent syncope following a left pneumonectomy was described in a 63 year-old man, forty years after the initial treatment. Four years physician visit including the family doctor, a neurologist, neurosurgeon, physiatrist, radiologist, psychiatrist and finally a cardiologist made the diagnosis hard to establish and the treatment delayed. The post-pneumonectomy syndrome is a complex constellation of symptoms, following previous lung pneumonectomy, with various presentations mimicking different pathologies. Its diagnosis is often misleading, making the treatment and prognosis hard to predict.
Publisher: Macedonian Association of Anatomists
Relation: Journal of Morphological Sciences
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/25411
Identifier: Gigovska Dimova I, Ristovski V, Prgova Veljanova B, Buklioska Ilievska D, Evtimovska-Otovikj N, Nedeska Minova N. "POST-PNEUMONECTOMY SYNDROME IN ADULT PRESENTING WITH RECURRENT SYNCOPE". Journal of Morphological Sciences, [S.l.], v. 5, n. 3, p. 45-52, dec. 2022. ISSN 2545-4706.
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/25411
