Tuberculous pleural effusion following coronary artery bypass graft.
We present two patients with moderate left ventricular dysfunction, who developed a pleural effusion after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The effusion was proven to be an exsudate of tuberculous origin. This illustrates that not all pleural exsudates developing after CABG are due to a post-pericardiotomy syndrome. Therefore microbiological examination of pleural fluid and if necessary pleural biopsy should be performed in all patients with an unresolving pleural effusion following CABG.
Respiratory Division, Academic Hospital University of Brussels (AZ VUB), Belgium.
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Meysman
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Schoors
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Noppen
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Vincken
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Dewilde
D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D014396:Tuberculosis, Pleural / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology