Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0034067 (emphysema)
 11,506 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

There have been no published reports of pneumopericardium complicating laparoscopy. Following an apparently uncomplicated laparoscopy, a 35-year-old woman developed pneumopericardium associated with subcutaneous emphysema of the neck. This resolved without specific therapy and without sequelae.
 ...
PMID:Pneumopericardium following laparoscopy. 15 60

A premature male infant with hyaline membrane disease succumbed suddenly during continuous positive pressure respirator therapy. Autopsy revealed a very rare complication to be the cause of sudden death: air embolization to pulmonary veins, right ventricle and superior and inferior venae cavae as well as interstitial and subpleural emphysema, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium. The important role of lymphatic vessels as a port of entry for air is stressed.
 ...
PMID:[Sudden death caused by massive air embolism during respirator therapy in the newborn]. 37 5

Details of 25 cases of neonatal systemic air embolism, including three of our patients, are reviewed. This rare complication of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) was observed in 21 premature infants and 4 fullterm newborns, of whom 23 required intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV). In 21 of these patients air embolism was preceded by pulmonary interstitial emphysema, pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax and/or pneumopericardium. Air embolism occurred between 3 and 288 hours after delivery. The outcome was lethal in 24 cases, only one patient survived. Two main pathogenic mechanisms are discussed; entrance of air from ruptured alveoli into the lung capillaries and introduction of air via catheters in umbilical vessels.
 ...
PMID:Systemic air embolism in the respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn. 38 64

A case with pneumopericardium and pneumomediastinum produced by a bronchial foreign body (pieces of a nut) is reported. The pathomechanism is discussed: In state of check valve the bronchial foreign body produces an interstitial emphysema by rupture of the alveolar membranes in the overinflated lung. The interstitial air travels along the sheaths of the pulmonary blood vessels to the root of the lung, to mediastinum, and to pericardium. In state of stop valve, depending on the inflammatory swelling of the mucosa, the affected lung becomes atelectatic. After removing the foreign body air passage will be free. Other therapeutic measures are not necessary.
 ...
PMID:[Phenumopericardium and pneumomediastinum depend upon bronchial foreign body (author's transl)]. 56 55

We report, a term newborn infant with congenital vocal cord paralysis and congenital viral myocarditis. In her five days of life she developed a pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, subcutaneous emphysema, and terminally a pneumothorax and systemic air embolus. This unusual case is used to develop a concept of the pathogenesis of extraventilatory air, and is also represented in diagrammatic form.
 ...
PMID:Systemic gas embolus: a discussion of its pathogenesis in the neonate, with a review of the literature. 90 88

The changing pattern of hyaline membrane disease and its iatrogenic complications during respiratory treatment are reviewed. The typical roentgenologic symptoms of pulmonary interstitial emphysema, pseudocyst, pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum, pneumothorax, pneumopericardium, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and pulmonary heamorrhage are described and illustrated. Their relevance for clinical management is discussed.
 ...
PMID:[Hyaline membrane disease: pulmonary changes and complications during ventilatory assistance in preterm infants (authors transl)]. 97 1

Pneumoperitoneum, pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium and subcutaneous emphysema developed in a patient following simple dental extraction. Other causes of this unusual complication, such as pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis, insufflation of fallopian tubes, pulmonary-peritoneal fistula, post-partum knee-chest exercises, laparotomy, paracentesis and peritoneal dialysis should be considered when peritoneal signs are absent so that unnecessary laparotomy can be avoided.
 ...
PMID:Pneumoperitoneum, pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium following dental extraction. 112 60

An unexpected clinical presentation of an unusual pacing failure has been observed in two patients who had had recent implantation of a pacemaker model whose electrodes were made of an nonnoble metal alloy. An intermittent current leakage from the output capacitor and possibly from the output transistor accounted for electrolytic corrosion at the anode, premature depletion of the battery, heart muscle damage and for massive gas generation around electrodes, leading to right ventricular perforation, pneumopericardium and subcutaneous thoracic emphysema. The occurrence of this syndrome shows that, if nonnoble metals are used for electrodes, more attention should be addressed to those conditions which add to polarization problems, as is current leakage from the output circuit components.
 ...
PMID:Electrolytic phenomena and massive gas generation around pacemaker electrodes. Clinical presentation of an unusual pacing failure. 119 14

Subcutaneous neck emphysema has been reported infrequently following colonoscopic perforation and only a single case of pneumopericardium has been previously reported. The successful management of these patients in the literature has largely been non-operative. We report a case of colonoscopic perforation which presented with subcutaneous neck emphysema, pneumopericardium, and pneumoperitoneum that required operative intervention.
 ...
PMID:Pneumopericardium and subcutaneous emphysema of the neck. An unusual manifestation of colonoscopic perforation. 150 82

We report six observations of pneumomediastinum, due to dental extraction and use of high speed air turbine drill, aspiration of a nut with air trapping, labor in delivery, status asthmaticus, mechanical ventilation, and rectal perforation. Some patients showed widespread extension of dissecting air presenting as subcutaneous emphysema, pneumopericardium or pneumoretroperitoneum. The mediastinum is thought to be a central pump, the diaphragm and the lung acting like bellows, which distribute interstitial air from and into communicating layers on both sides of the diaphragm. Pneumomediastinum does not prove an air leak in the thoracic cage nor does pneumoretroperitoneum absolutely indicate bowel rupture. Review of the literature.
 ...
PMID:[Dissecting emphysema]. 194 55


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next >>