[Successful perioperative management with non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in muscular dystrophy with thymoma; report of a case].
We report a case of muscular dystrophy with thymoma that was detected by chance at the examination of his fatal arrhythmia. He has hypercapnea and restrictive pulmonary disfunction, but non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) had not been introduced. Thymo-thymectomy was performed through reversed L-shaped mediansternotomy. NPPV was effective in his perioperative management.
Motono
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Department of Pulmonary Surgery, Niigata Prefectural Central Hospital, Joetsu, Japan.
Aoki
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Shimada
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Nakayama
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Yazawa
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000601:surgery; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000150:complications*; D019990:Perioperative Care; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D013934:Thymectomy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome