Cardiac operation with associated pulmonary resection: a word of caution.
Pulmonary tuberculosis reactivation is an unusual cause of respiratory failure after cardiac surgery. Fulminating tuberculosis was reactivated in a 50-year-old man after combined coronary artery bypass grafting and pulmonary resection on cardiopulmonary bypass. Clinicians should be aware of the immunosuppressive effects associated with cardiopulmonary bypass, and the consequent potential for tuberculosis reactivation.
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Calvin S H
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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
Arifi
Ahmed A
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Wan
Song
S
Lee
Tak Wai
TW
Yim
Anthony P C
AP
D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011859:Radiography; D012008:Recurrence; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*