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Case Reports

Postpneumonectomy-Like Syndrome in an Infant With Right Lung Agenesis and Left Main Bronchus Hypoplasia

^a Division of Thoracic Surgery, Major City Hospital, Verona, Italy
^b Division of Pediatrics, Major City Hospital, Verona, Italy
^c Division of Thoracic Surgery, S. Croce Hospital, Cuneo, Italy

Accepted for publication February 9, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Biban, U.O. Pediatria, Piazzale Stefani 1, Verona, 37126, Italy (Email: paolo.biban{at}azosp.vr.it).

We report a 1-year-old child born with agenesis of the right lung who sustained an episode of acute respiratory failure related to a postpneumonectomy-like syndrome, with severe mediastinal shift and subsequent stretching and stenosis of the left main bronchus. The insertion of an expandable prosthesis in the right empty pleural space markedly improved the patient's clinical condition.