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BACKGROUND: Symptomatic isolated costovertebral joint (CVJ) osteoarthritis is rare, and establishing this diagnosis is often difficult. There are few reports in the literature about how to surgically manage these lesions. Our aim was to describe a case of isolated osteoarthritis of the costotransverse joint (CTJ) successfully treated with a resection arthroplasty. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 51-year-old female presented with 3 years of the right paravertebral T 10-level back and radiating pain. No conservative treatment modality effectively resolved this pain (i.e., these included anti-inflammatory medications, physiotherapy, and joint blockages). MRI, CT, and technetium-99m methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy demonstrated inflammatory changes involving the right T10 CTJ. Following resection arthroplasty, the patient's symptoms abated. CONCLUSION: Symptomatic osteoarthritis of the right T10 CVJ successfully resolved following costotransversectomy for joint resection arthroplasty.
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A 26-year-old patient with a voluminous primary pulmonary hemangiopericytoma in the right lung, diagnosed through previous surgical biopsy, presented irreversible cardiac arrest during the hilar dissection portion of a right pneumonectomy. The patient did not respond to resuscitation efforts. Autopsy showed total obstruction of the mitral valve by a tumor embolism. In cases of large lung masses with hilar involvement, as in the case presented, we recommend preoperative evaluation using transesophageal echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging or angiotomography. If injury to the pulmonary vessels or atrial cavities is detected, surgery with extracorporeal circulation should be arranged in order to allow resection of the intravascular or cardiac mass, together with pulmonary resection. We recommend that care be taken in order to recognize and treat this problem in patients not receiving a preoperative diagnosis.
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Heart Arrest/etiology , Heart Neoplasms/secondary , Hemangiopericytoma/surgery , Lung Neoplasms/surgery , Mitral Valve Stenosis/etiology , Pneumonectomy/adverse effects , Adult , Fatal Outcome , Heart Arrest/pathology , Humans , Intraoperative Complications/etiology , Lung Neoplasms/pathology , Male , Mitral Valve Stenosis/pathology , Neoplastic Cells, Circulating , Preoperative CareABSTRACT
Um paciente de 26 anos, portador de volumoso hemangiopericitoma primário de pulmão direito, diagnosticado por biópsia cirúrgica prévia, apresentou parada cardíaca irreversível durante dissecção hilar de pneumectomia direita. O paciente não respondeu às manobras de ressuscitação. A necropsia mostrou obstrução total de valva mitral por êmbolo tumoral. Os autores recomendam, em casos de grandes massas pulmonares com envolvimento hilar, como no caso aqui apresentado, a avaliação pré-operatória com ecocardiografia transesofágica, ressonância magnética nuclear ou angiotomografia. Se for detectada lesão em vasos pulmonares ou cavidades atriais, deve-se programar a cirurgia com circulação extracorpórea, para permitir ressecção da massa intra-vascular ou cardíaca, combinada com a ressecção pulmonar. Os autores recomendam cuidados para reconhecer e tratar este problema, se o diagnóstico pré-operatório não for feito.
A 26-year-old patient with a voluminous primary pulmonary hemangiopericytoma in the right lung, diagnosed through previous surgical biopsy, presented irreversible cardiac arrest during the hilar dissection portion of a right pneumonectomy. The patient did not respond to resuscitation efforts. Autopsy showed total obstruction of the mitral valve by a tumor embolism. In cases of large lung masses with hilar involvement, as in the case presented, we recommend preoperative evaluation using transesophageal echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging or angiotomography. If injury to the pulmonary vessels or atrial cavities is detected, surgery with extracorporeal circulation should be arranged in order to allow resection of the intravascular or cardiac mass, together with pulmonary resection. We recommend that care be taken in order to recognize and treat this problem in patients not receiving a preoperative diagnosis.
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Adult , Humans , Male , Heart Arrest/etiology , Heart Neoplasms/secondary , Hemangiopericytoma/surgery , Lung Neoplasms/surgery , Mitral Valve Stenosis/etiology , Pneumonectomy/adverse effects , Fatal Outcome , Heart Arrest/pathology , Intraoperative Complications/etiology , Lung Neoplasms/pathology , Mitral Valve Stenosis/pathology , Neoplastic Cells, Circulating , Preoperative CareABSTRACT
São apresentados dois casos de pacientes com pneumotorax e pneumopericárdio hipertensivo, em pós-operatório de cirurgia cardiotorácica. Ambos tiveram abertura do pericárdio como um dos tempos cirúrgicos da operação inicial e apresentaram sintomas de tamponamento pericárdico como complicação. O tratamento foi uma drenagem pleural nos dois casos, que evoluíram para resolução do processo.
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Humans , Male , Adult , Coronary Artery Bypass/adverse effects , Pneumonectomy/adverse effects , Pneumopericardium/etiology , Pneumothorax/etiology , Drainage , Pneumopericardium , Pneumopericardium/therapy , Pneumothorax , Pneumothorax/therapy , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
Herein, we report two cases of pneumothorax and tension pneumopericardium after cardiothoracic surgery. Both patients underwent pericardiotomy during the primary operation and developed pericardial tamponade as a complication. The treatment was tube thoracostomy, and both patients recovered completely.
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Coronary Artery Bypass/adverse effects , Pneumonectomy/adverse effects , Pneumopericardium/etiology , Pneumothorax/etiology , Adult , Drainage , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pneumopericardium/diagnostic imaging , Pneumopericardium/therapy , Pneumothorax/diagnostic imaging , Pneumothorax/therapy , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
Um caso de fogo em via aérea durante traqueostomia cervical eletiva é apresentado. São discutidos os fatores desencadeantes e as medidas para evitar que esta temida complicação ocorra.
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Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Oxygen/therapeutic use , TracheostomyABSTRACT
É apresentada uma revisäo bibliográfica dos procedimentos transtorácico e extratorácico (esofagectomia sem toracotomia), cuja técnica vem se tornando cada vez mais atraente entre os cirurgiöes, apesar das críticas feitas ao nível do terço médio, no qual a cirurgia do esôfago é feita as cegas. Doze pacientes foram operados com o procedimento extratorácico, sendo 11 com estenose maligna, a maioria de terço inferior, e apenas um paciente de terço superior. As idades estavam incluídas entre a quinta e a sexta décadas. Näo ocorreram complicaçöes per-operatórias, enquanto que no pós-operatório houve 30% de deiscência da anastomose esôfago-gastrica cervical evoluçäo näo foi a mesma referida por outros autores - uma fístula salivar com evoluçäo benigna, espontânea com cura dentro de três semanas - e levou a formaçäo de focos sépticos, lesäo nos pulmöes que pela síndrome alveolar, quer pela intersticial, ocasionando um óbito. Estas complicaçöes foram as responsáveis pelas duas mortes no pós-operatório (dentro de 30 dias). No que tange a sobrevida, a mesma foi de sete meses, já que os casos näo foram selecionados para a cirurgia, em virtude de ser objetivo restaurar a deglutiçäo
