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.
Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. paulopego@incor.usp.br
Paulo M
PM
Pêgo-Fernandes
Fábio B
FB
Jatene
Clayton Cesar
CC
Tokunaga
Danielle Tiemi
DT
Simão
Ricardo
R
Beirutty
Eliza Rumiko
ER
Iwahashi
Sérgio Almeida
SA
de Oliveira
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*