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Cardiac operation with associated pulmonary resection: a word of caution
Calvin S H Ng1, Ahmed A Arifi, Song Wan
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|January 23, 2003
Abstract:
Pulmonary tuberculosis reactivation is an unusual cause of respiratory failure after cardiac surgery. Fulminating tuberculosis was reactivated in a 50-year-old man after combined coronary artery bypass grafting and pulmonary resection on cardiopulmonary bypass. Clinicians should be aware of the immunosuppressive effects associated with cardiopulmonary bypass, and the consequent potential for tuberculosis reactivation.