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[Atelectasis following cesarean section. Personal experience]
A D'Ettore1, S Sciorio, C Caccavale
1Dipartimento Clinico di Emergenza Ostetrica e Ginecologica e Medicina della Riproduzione, Urologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Minerva Ginecologica
|May 29, 2002
Abstract:
Purpose of this paper is to evaluate the risk of ateletasis in patients that underwent surgery of the abdomen (cesarean section), since the reflex of cough in these patients is notably altered for the limitation of the diaphragmatic excursions, due to analgesic contracture. The inhibition of cough's reflex causes retention of secretions with consequent bronchial obstruction and atelectasis. Personal experience in 6 cases of atelectasis following cesarean section is reported.