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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=54171#.VPAd0izQrzE Author(s) Takanori Ayabe * , Masaki Tomita , Eiichi Chosa , Katsuya Kawagoe , Kunihide Nakamura Affiliation(s) Department of Surgery II, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan . ABSTRACT Background: Primary pulmonary angiosarcoma is extremely rare and the prognosis is very poor. We report a combination therapy of pneumonectomy and intrapleural hypotonic hyperthermic chemotherapy (IPHHC). Case report: A 48-year-old male with exertional dyspnea was found to have a left massive pleural effusion. Bronchoscopic examination displayed endobronchial stenosis of the left lower bronchus B 8,9,10...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=54171#.VO7dKizQrzE Author(s)  Takanori Ayabe * , Masaki Tomita , Eiichi Chosa , Katsuya Kawagoe , Kunihide Nakamura Affiliation(s) Department of Surgery II, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan . ABSTRACT Background: Primary pulmonary angiosarcoma is extremely rare and the prognosis is very poor. We report a combination therapy of pneumonectomy and intrapleural hypotonic hyperthermic chemotherapy (IPHHC). Case report: A 48-year-old male with exertional dyspnea was found to have a left massive pleural effusion. Bronchoscopic examination displayed endobronchial stenosis of the left lower bronchus B 8,9,10  and diagnosed with pulmonary angiosarcoma. Chest computed-tomographic scanning revealed a 5-cm mass in the left inferior lobe, which invaded the left upperbronchus. Intrapleural dissemination and malignant pleural effusion were also suspe...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53974#.VN2umCzQrzE Author(s)  Mariana Vigiola Cruz 1 , Gregory D. Trachiotis 1,2*   Affiliation(s) 1 The Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, USA . 2 The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA . ABSTRACT Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome is a rare disease that results in parenchymal damage believed to be caused by recurrent lung infections in childhood. We report a case of a previously healthy young woman that presented with insidious progression of exertional dyspnea with restrictive lung physiology. Axial imaging demonstrated a hyperinflated emphysematous right lung with lower lobe fibrosis, nodules and air-fluid filled cysts, with a small right pulmonary artery and contralateral shifting of the mediastinum. She underwent right pneumonectomy ultimately resultingin improvement of her symptoms, with surgic...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53752#.VNHLrSzQrzE Author(s)   Song Yang , Zhuanying Mai , Xiangzhen Zheng , Yueling Qiu Affiliation(s) Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The 175th Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Affiliated Dongnan Hospital of Xia’men University, Zhangzhou City, China . ABSTRACT Background: It is very important to enhance the therapeutic effect and prognosis of severe tuberculous hemoptysis after the determining of its etiological cause and the source of bleeding. The etiology and integrated curative effect of severe hemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis among 112 inpatients were analyzed. Materials and Methods: The cause was retrospectively analysed. The integrated management effect after the follow-up of mean three years in 112 cases with severe hemoptysis being resulted from pulmonary tuberculosis from June 2008 to July 2012 was described. Active pulmona...