ABSTRACT
Anesthetic management of mediastinal masses is challenging. There is abundant literature available on anesthesia management of anterior mediastinal mass. Anesthetic management of posterior mediastinal mass lesions normally have uneventful course. We describe airway collapse and difficult mechanical ventilation in the postoperative period in a patient with posterior mediastinal mass.
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Anesthesia/methods , Mediastinal Neoplasms/surgery , Adult , Cardiopulmonary Bypass , Humans , Intubation, Intratracheal/instrumentation , Male , Mediastinal Neoplasms/pathology , Respiration, ArtificialABSTRACT
Congenital absence of pericardium is rarely seen, often diagnosed intraoperatively during cardiac and thoracic surgeries. Left-sided pericardial defects are more common than right-sided ones. We present a case of an incidentally detected congenital absence of right pericardium with herniation of part of the right lung during ventricular septal defect closure surgery in a male child aged 4 years.
