Abstract Introduction: General anesthesia causes pulmonary atelectasis within few minutes of induction. This can have significant impact on postoperative outcome of cancer patients undergoing prolonged reconstructive surgeries. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of sonograp...
RESUMO Objetivo: Verificar a ocorrência e as características de atelectasias, opacidades, hipotransparências e infiltrados pulmonares evidenciados ao raio X de tórax dos recém-nascidos prematuros, de uma unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal. Métodos: Trata-se de estudo observacional transversal....
Abstract Sclerosing mediastinitis (SM), previously named chronic fibrosing mediastinitis, is an inflammatory process that in its end-stage results to sclerosis around the mediastinal structures. SM is quite rare and has been correlated with inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, as well as malignancy. SM ...
Abstract Objective: In this study, the efficacy of thoracic ultrasonography during echocardiography was evaluated in newborns. Methods: Sixty newborns who had undergone pediatric cardiac surgery were successively evaluated between March 1, 2015, and September 1, 2015. Patients were evaluated for effusi...
Abstract. The Luftsichel sign corresponds to a crescent-shaped paraaortic hyperlucency in frontal chest radiograph caused by the collapse of the left upper lobe. Its recognition is relevant, especially in adult patients, where we should considered an endobronchial neoplasia as the first possible etiology...