Traumatic Bronchial Rupture and Platypnea-Orthodeoxia

• Published in: The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 662 - 664
• Main Authors: Odell, John A., MB, ChB, Keller, Cesar A., MD, Erasmus, David B., MB, ChB, Stritt, Mathew T., MD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.02.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Accidents, Traffic; Adult; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Bronchi - injuries; Bronchi - surgery; Bronchoscopy; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Constriction, Pathologic - etiology; Constriction, Pathologic - surgery; Dyspnea - diagnostic imaging; Dyspnea - etiology; Dyspnea - surgery; Dyspnea - therapy; Humans; Hypoxia - diagnostic imaging; Hypoxia - etiology; Hypoxia - surgery; Hypoxia - therapy; Male; Medical sciences; Multiple Trauma - rehabilitation; Multiple Trauma - surgery; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; Pneumology; Posture; Pulmonary Atelectasis - diagnostic imaging; Pulmonary Atelectasis - etiology; Pulmonary Atelectasis - surgery; Pulmonary Atelectasis - therapy; Rupture - etiology; Rupture - surgery; Supine Position - physiology; Surgery; Suture Techniques; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio; Wounds, Nonpenetrating - complications; 15; 20; Bronchus; Anesthesia; Circulatory system; Cardiology; Trauma; Rupture
• ISSN: 0003-4975; 1552-6259
• DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.07.072

A patient with blunt trauma and traumatic bronchial rupture and lung collapse had prominent symptoms of platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome. These symptoms were relieved by bronchial repair. The syndrome is rarely seen and is usually associated with a patent foramen ovale or atrial septal defect. The syndrome has not been described previously in association with traumatic bronchial rupture.