Dextroposition of the left lower lobe after heart-lung transplantation.
Immediately after heart-lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis, a patient had development of a right lower lobe retrocardiac density that persisted on all postoperative chest radiographs. A computed tomographic examination of the thorax performed 3 weeks after surgery showed that there was partial collapse of the left lower lobe in the right hemithorax. The patient required a posterolateral thoracotomy for cure.
Gevenois
P A
PA
Department of Radiology, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Antoine
M
M
Yernault
J C
JC
Leclerc
J L
JL
Estenne
M
M
D000328:Adult; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography