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Anaesthetic management of a 6‐week‐old child with unilateral pulmonary interstitial emphysema
Author(s) -
Mccartney C.J.L.,
Johnston G.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2000.00501.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary emphysema , anesthesia , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , lung
Summary We report the case of a 6‐week‐old female infant suffering from respiratory distress related to cystic changes affecting the entire left lung. Anaesthesia was induced with sevoflurane in oxygen and spontaneous ventilation was maintained until intubation of the right main bronchus was secured. A left pneumonectomy was performed and the postoperative course was uneventful. The pathological diagnosis was pulmonary interstitial emphysema. This has not been previously reported in an otherwise normal child delivered uneventfully at term. The anaesthetic management of a child with a cystic lung lesion is discussed.