title: Respiratory failure after treatment of pneumothorax.
abstract: A 40-year-old man presented with an eight day history of left-side pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. Chest examination revealed decreased air entry at the left lung. Chest X-ray examination revealed a large pneumothorax and a chest tube was successfully placed. Two hours after the procedure, auscultation revealed crackles over the left lung and oxygen saturation was 88% on room air. Chest radiography was repeated and showed a fully expanded left lung with alveolar-interstitial infiltrates.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario, Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: ebaldessari@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Enrique M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Baldessari
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario, Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Maria J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Arceluz
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario, Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Andres
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mendez-Villarroel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain; D004417:Dyspnea; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis*