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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 58, 882-884, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Open heart operation after pneumonectomy

B Medalion, A Elami, E Milgalter and G Merin
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

A coronary artery bypass operation was performed successfully on a 70- year-old patient who had undergone left pneumonectomy 40 years earlier. This case, together with a search of the literature and a mail survey among 118 cardiothoracic surgeons worldwide, yielded data on 27 such patients for review. Two patients died perioperatively. Three patients had pneumothorax, and 1 patient had recurrent pleural effusion. Difficulty in exposing the circumflex marginal branches was reported in 2 patients after left pneumonectomy. We conclude that with attention to the specific features of the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management, open heart procedures can be performed on patients after pneumonectomy with acceptable operative mortality and morbidity.

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