Abstract

ARMAS DARIAS, Juan Carlos; VALDES MESA, Pablo Guillermo; RODRIGUEZ RIVERO, Alexánder  and  VALDES LEYVA, Fidel Raúl. Algunos aspectos clinicoquirúrgicos del neumotórax espontáneo. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2001, vol.40, n.1, pp. 07-11. ISSN 1561-2945.

An observational descriptive research was made to know the behaviour of some clinicosurgical aspects of the spontaneous pneumothorax, which was diagnosed in 180 patients attended at the Service of General Surgery of the "Capitán Roberto Rodriguez Fernández" Provincial General Hospital, in Morón, from 1985 to 1999, including both. Most of the patients were males and age groups were 15-44. 83.3% of the patients were smokers. 45.6% of the patients had no pathological history. Pain and dyspnoea were the predominant symptoms. 50.6% of the studied individuals had a pneumothorax over 50%. Minimum high pleurostomy and pleural puncture with aspiration were the most used procedures. The latter proved to be curative in 70.9% of the pneumothoraxes between 26 and 50%. Pulmonary inexpansibility was the main complication. There was 2.8% of mortality

Keywords : PNEUMOTHORAX [diagnosis]; PNEUMOTHORAX [surgery]; PNEUMOTHORAX [complications]; PARECENTESIS [methods]; ASPIRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES.

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