Spontaneous contralateral pneumothorax in a patient with low Body Mass Index

• Authors: Kensuke Nakazawa , Gen Ohara , Katsunori Kagohashi , Koichi Kurishima , Atsushi Ishibashi , Hiroaki Satoh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Spontaneous pneumothorax is most common in adolescents and young adults. Some of them develop contralateral pneumothorax. In this paper, we report the case of a patient with spontaneous contralateral pneumothorax, whose body mass index (BMI) was 18.8 kg/m2. For either chest physicians or thoracic surgeons, follow up with recognition of increased risk of the contralateral pneumothorax is important especially in patients with contralateral bullous lesions and low BMI.

Keywords

EN

Spontaneous pneumothorax; Contralateral pneumothorax; Body mass index; Video-assisted thoracic surgery

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 733-735

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2012

online

11 - 10 - 2012

Contributors

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Kensuke Nakazawa

• Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba, Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-0015, Japan

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Gen Ohara

• Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba, Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-0015, Japan

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Katsunori Kagohashi

• Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba, Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-0015, Japan

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Koichi Kurishima

• Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba, Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-0015, Japan

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Atsushi Ishibashi

• Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba, Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-0015, Japan

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Hiroaki Satoh

• Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba, Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-0015, Japan

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-012-0076-y