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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Tension Pneumothorax: A Complication of Superior Vena Cava Filter Insertion

^a Department of Internal Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
^b Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Bhatt, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital 801, Ostrum St, Bethlehem, PA 18015 (Email: suryabhatt@gmail.com).

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A 64-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital for meningioma resection had a postoperative course complicated by parenchymal and subarachnoid hemorrhage, obstructive hydrocephalus, ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion, ventilator-associated pneumonia with prolonged weaning, and bilateral proximal subclavian vein thrombosis. A Günther Tulip filter (Cook . . . [Full Text of this Article]