Journal article
Infant thoracic surgery: Procedure-dependent pulmonary response
Journal of pediatric surgery, v 31(7), pp 878-880
1996
PMID: 8811547
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Abstract
Respiratory insufficiency is a common complication of thoracic surgery in infants. To better define this dysfunction, pulmonary compliance (C
L) and resistance (R) were measured for 17 infants who underwent common thoracic procedures: Blalock-Taussig shunting (n = 7) repair of congenital coarctation of the aorta (n = 10). Measurements were obtained preoperatively and 0, 1, and 3 days postoperatively. Preoperatively, C
L was lower and R was similar for the two groups. Both groups had decreased C
L and increased R on postoperative day 0; infants with coarctation had recovery to preoperative values by postoperative day 1 for C
L, and day 3 for R. C
L and R did not return to the preoperative values by postoperative day 3 in infants with a shunt procedure. The changes in R were greater than those in C
L for both groups in the postoperative period. These data indicate that such thoracic procedures are associated with pulmonary morbidity that is airway-predominant, and that the degree of compromise and the time until recovery are, in part, procedure-specific.
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- Title
- Infant thoracic surgery: Procedure-dependent pulmonary response
- Creators
- Jay S Greenspan - Jefferson CollegeDeborah A Davis - Jefferson CollegePierantonio Russo - Jefferson CollegeGeovanni Speziali - Jefferson CollegeMichael J Antunes - Jefferson CollegeAlan R Spitzer - Jefferson CollegeThomas H Shaffer - Jefferson CollegeDarian A Davis - Digital Media
- Publication Details
- Journal of pediatric surgery, v 31(7), pp 878-880
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Digital Media
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1996UV70700002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0030015485
- Other Identifier
- 991019168848804721
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- Pediatrics
- Surgery