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Query: UMLS:C0034067 (emphysema)
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A patient who developed palpitation in 1917 was later found to have the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and survived to the age of 86, when he died of emphysema. Shortly before he first presented, a report of another patient had been published that can now retrospectively be recognized as containing the first tracings from a case of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; its coauthors were a distinguished American cardiologist, Alfred E. Cohn, who had worked with Sir Thomas Lewis, and his British research fellow, Francis R. Fraser.
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PMID:Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: long follow-up and an Anglo-American historical note. 635 44

A 57-yr-old man with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome was scheduled for thoracotomy due to pneumothorax caused by severe emphysema (FEV1.0% 29%). Anesthesia was induced with propofol and fentanyl and maintained with continuous propofol infusion combined with thoracic epidural anesthesia. During mechanical ventilation, the peak inspiratory pressure was reduced to avoid overinflation or rupture of the lung. Although severe hypercapnia was observed during one lung ventilation, there was no incidence of tachyarrhythmias that we had feared. We suggest that hypercapnia is unlikely to cause tachyarrhythmias in patients with WPW syndrome if carefully managed.
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PMID:[Anesthesia for thoracotomy in a patient with severe emphysema associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome]. 1142 80