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Laeknabladid 2022 Jun;108(6):299-305

Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Landspitali University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland.

Background: Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a common disease where surgery is indicated for persistant air leak or recurrent pneumothorax. We studied the outcomes of PSP-surgery over a 28 year period in a whole nation.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study on 386 patients (median age 24 years, 78% males) that underwent 430 PSP surgeries at Landspitali University Hospital 1991-2018. Read More

J Pediatr Surg 2022 Feb 25. Epub 2022 Feb 25.

The Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Children's National Hospital, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington DC 20010, United States.

Background: The surgical treatment of achalasia by both laparoscopic and endoscopic approaches has been recognized as the definitive management in children. Despite reported low volumes in many centers, there has been an increasing worldwide experience with endoscopic approaches to pediatric achalasia. The aim of this study is to report our institutional experience with per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) as first-line or revisional therapy for achalasia. Read More

Respir Med Case Rep 2022 18;36:101603. Epub 2022 Feb 18.

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Theo-Funccius Str. 1, 58675, Hemer, Germany.

Spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) in women of reproductive age with causes such as thoracic endometriosis syndrome (TES) presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. A 33-year-old women was treated conservatively with chest tube insertion for a first occurrence of a right-sided pneumothorax in September 2015. In January 2016, a right-sided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) wedge resection and partial parietal pleurectomy was performed due to a recurrence. Read More

Klin Padiatr 2022 Feb 3. Epub 2022 Feb 3.

Pediatrics, Gemeinschaftsklinikum Mittelrhein gGmbH, Koblenz, Deutschland.

Complete tracheal ring deformity (CTRD) is a rare abnormality of unknown etiology characterized by circumferentially continuous cartilaginous tracheal rings leading to variable degrees of tracheal stenosis with or without additional heart and lung malformations. Pleuropulmonary blastomas (PPB) are rare malignant mesenchymal tumors, which occur almost exclusively in young children. Pathogenic germline variants are associated with PPB but also with other tumors like rhabdomyosarcoma or syndromic diseases like GLOW (Global developmental delay, lung cysts, overgrowth and Wilms tumor) syndrome. Read More

Pediatr Pulmonol 2022 04 4;57(4):1100-1102. Epub 2022 Feb 4.

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Pneumothoraces are not an uncommon finding in the newborn period. Recurrent pneumothoraces can be associated with complications of prematurity or use of ventilators but can be seen in rapidly progressive cystic lung disease. We report a case of recurrent pneumothoraces in an infant with the rapidly progressive cystic disease in the setting of an absent right pulmonary artery. Read More