Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant

Meletios Kanakis; Konstantinos Petsios; Dimitrios Bobos; Kosmas Sarafidis; Stefanos Nikopoulos; Konstantinos Kyriakoulis; Achilleas Lioulias; Nicholas Giannopoulos

doi:10.1155/2016/4182741

Case Reports in Surgery (Jan 2016)

Left Upper Lobectomy for Congenital Lobar Emphysema in a Low Weight Infant

Meletios Kanakis,
Konstantinos Petsios,
Dimitrios Bobos,
Kosmas Sarafidis,
Stefanos Nikopoulos,
Konstantinos Kyriakoulis,
Achilleas Lioulias,
Nicholas Giannopoulos

Affiliations

Meletios Kanakis: Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, Greece
Konstantinos Petsios: Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, Greece
Dimitrios Bobos: Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, Greece
Kosmas Sarafidis: Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration Hospital, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece
Stefanos Nikopoulos: Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration Hospital, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece
Konstantinos Kyriakoulis: Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, Greece
Achilleas Lioulias: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sismanoglio General Hospital of Athens, 15126 Marousi, Greece
Nicholas Giannopoulos: Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, 17674 Kallithea, Greece

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/4182741
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2016

Abstract

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Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare lung congenital malformation. Differential diagnosis of the disease remains challenging in an infant with acute respiratory distress. We report a case of a 3-week-old female infant with a weight of 2.1 kg who presented respiratory distress related to CLE. Left upper lobectomy was performed and she had an uneventful recovery.

Published in Case Reports in Surgery

ISSN: 2090-6900 (Print); 2090-6919 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Surgery
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