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Case Report

Treatment of Persistent Air Leak with Endobronchial Valves

by
Fransien Van Hende
1,* and
Kris Carron
2
1
Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
2
Department of Respiratory Diseases, AZ Delta Roeselare, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Adv. Respir. Med. 2020, 88(1), 28-30; https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.a2020.0075
Submission received: 5 October 2019 / Revised: 1 December 2019 / Accepted: 1 December 2019 / Published: 20 February 2020

Abstract

Persistent pulmonary air leaks are usually treated conservatively with prolonged thoracostomy tube drainage. In case this approach fails, surgical revision used to be the only option. This Case Report describes the successful treatment of a 66-year old patient who developped a pulmonary air leak after cardiothoracic surgery that persisted despite attempted surgical repair and talc pleurodesis. The treatment was successfully completed with endobronchial valves thereby demonstrating that treatment with endobronchial valves doesn’t only represent an alternative to surgery, but that it can also be successful in case surgical intervention fails.
Keywords: pulmonary air leak; endobronchial valve pulmonary air leak; endobronchial valve

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Van Hende, F.; Carron, K. Treatment of Persistent Air Leak with Endobronchial Valves. Adv. Respir. Med. 2020, 88, 28-30. https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.a2020.0075

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Van Hende F, Carron K. Treatment of Persistent Air Leak with Endobronchial Valves. Advances in Respiratory Medicine. 2020; 88(1):28-30. https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.a2020.0075

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Van Hende, Fransien, and Kris Carron. 2020. "Treatment of Persistent Air Leak with Endobronchial Valves" Advances in Respiratory Medicine 88, no. 1: 28-30. https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.a2020.0075

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Van Hende, F., & Carron, K. (2020). Treatment of Persistent Air Leak with Endobronchial Valves. Advances in Respiratory Medicine, 88(1), 28-30. https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.a2020.0075

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