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Bronchial artery dissection and fatal hemothorax following pneumonectomy
Augustine T M Tang1, Theodore J Velissaris, Geoffrey Tsang
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. gus@tang-family.org
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|June 25, 2002
Abstract:
A 59-year-old man died suddenly and unexpectedly two days after an uncomplicated pneumonectomy for bronchogenic adenocarcinoma. In addition to a distal pulmonary thromboembolism found at postmortem, there was significant hemorrhaging into the pneumonectomy space, which was associated with rupture of a dissecting aneurysm in the calcified bronchial artery stump. The pathology and surgical implications of bronchial artery disease are discussed.