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Unilateral auto-PEEP in the recipient of a single lung transplant
C Popple1, T L Higgins, P McCarthy
1Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Chest
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report a patient who received a right single lung transplant (SLT) for progressive lymphangioleiomyomatosis and required reintubation for postoperative respiratory distress. She developed hemodynamic instability due to mediastinal shift from unilateral auto-PEEP with hyperinflation of the native lung. Placement of a double lumen endotracheal tube (DLET) and institution of differential lung ventilation restored equal lung inflation and hemodynamic stability.