Acute Pulmonary Edema Complicating Diagnostic Laparoscopy Preceded by Thoracotomy

Howard S. Brown, H S Brown, Farr Nezhat, F Nezhat, CAMRAN NEZHAT, C Nezhat, Jeffrey S. Levy, J S Levy, MICHAEL MAFFETT, M Maffett
Southern medical journal · 1996 · vol. 89(12) , pp. 1217–1219 · doi:10.1097/00007611-199612000-00018 · PMID:8969361 · W35841991
article OA: closed CC0 ⤵ 1 in-corpus citation
View on OpenAlex View on PubMed View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-08 ⓘ

This case report details a patient undergoing combined thoracotomy and diagnostic laparoscopy for pelvic endometriosis and pneumothoraces, who subsequently developed acute pulmonary edema.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

We report the case of a patient with pelvic endometriosis and recurrent spontaneous pneumothoraces who had thoracotomy and diagnostic laparoscopy, with subsequent acute pulmonary edema. Potential causes are discussed. After a thorough literature search, we believe this to be the first case in which thoracotomy has been combined with diagnostic laparoscopy.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Condition tags

mesh:D004715endometriosis

MeSH descriptors

Laparoscopy Pulmonary Edema Thoracotomy Acute Disease Adult Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Humans Laparoscopy Pneumothorax Pneumothorax Pneumothorax Pulmonary Edema

Citation neighborhood (sparse)

Too few in-corpus citations on either side for a chart; here are the lists.

Cited by (1)

Cited by (1)

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-06-04T01:30:01.192114+00:00
openalex
last seen: 2026-06-04T00:00:01.174412+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:10:57.821266+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK