A Case of Total Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax

GÖSta B. Pettersson Department of Thoracic and Cardivascular Surgery and the Department of Radiology, Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset, University of Göteborg, Sweden

Pantalei Gatzinsky Department of Thoracic and Cardivascular Surgery and the Department of Radiology, Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset, University of Göteborg, Sweden

Kjell Selin Department of Thoracic and Cardivascular Surgery and the Department of Radiology, Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset, University of Göteborg, Sweden

Abstract

Abstrac. Bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax with almost complete collapse of the lungs in a 29-year-old man is reported. On admission to hospital the patient was in moderate respiratory distress, but the arterial blood gases were normal. Initially he was treated with bilateral tube drainage. Thoracotomy with parietal pleurectomy was later done on the right side to prevent recurrence.

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