title: [Chylothorax. A case review and literature overview].
abstract: Chylothorax is a rare disorder, predominantly of traumatic (iatrogenic) or tumorous aetiology. Its symptomatology complies with other types of fluidothorax. Long-term chylous depletion may result in malnutrition and other metabolic and immunological symptoms. Infectious complications are rare. The authors present a literature overview and their own case-review of chylothorax resulting from the suprarenal aortic aneurysm surgery. The conservative management failed and the complication in the 75-year old patient was managed using pleuroabrasion and talk pleurodesis.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgická klinika FN Plzen.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Safránek
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Spidlen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vodicka
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Certík
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mírka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery; D002916:Chylothorax / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications