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Chylothorax: a complication of the nephrotic syndrome
1Pulmonary Medicine/Critical Care Unit, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester General Hospital, New York 14621.
The American Review of Respiratory Disease
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 50-yr-old man with the nephrotic syndrome developed a chylothorax that was shown to be due to transdiaphragmatic movement of chylous ascites. Because a significant number of patients with nephrotic syndrome have been reported to have chylous ascites, the possibility that chylothorax is due to movement of chylous ascites into the pleural space should be considered prior to surgical intervention directed toward repair of the thoracic duct.