Ligation of the thoracic duct for the treatment of chylothorax in heart diseases.
In children, chylothorax occurs mainly after cardiac and thoracic surgeries. One of the recommended postsurgery treatments is ligation of the thoracic tract, when all other conservative treatments have failed. We report 4 cases of chylothorax in patients who were successfully treated with this approach, which resulted in a decrease in pleural drainage without recurrent chylothorax.
Pêgo-Fernandes
Paulo M
PM
Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. paulopego@incor.usp.br
Jatene
Fábio B
FB
Tokunaga
Clayton Cesar
CC
Simão
Danielle Tiemi
DT
Beirutty
Ricardo
R
Iwahashi
Eliza Rumiko
ER
de Oliveira
Sérgio Almeida
SA
D000368:Aged; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002916:Chylothorax / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D013897:Thoracic Duct / Q000601:surgery*; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods*