Tension Hemothorax Due to Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- 15 February 1973
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 288 (7) , 353-354
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197302152880707
Abstract
COMPLICATIONS associated with patent ductus arteriosus are congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, subacute bacterial arteritis, and aneurysm of either the ductus or the pulmonary artery that may rupture and cause death. In the following, extremely unusual case an infant with tension hemothorax resulting from spontaneous rupture of a patent ductus arteriosus was treated successfully.Case ReportA 4-week-old male infant, the product of a normal full-term delivery, with a birth weight of 3900 g, was admitted to the University of Iowa Hospitals on March 1, 1972. The neonatal history was negative. He was well until 4 days before admission, when . . .Keywords
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