Park HJ, Park SH, Woo UT, Cho SY, Jeon WJ, Shin WJ. Unilateral pulmonary hemorrhage caused by negative pressure pulmonary edema: A case report. World J Clin Cases 2021; 9(6): 1408-1415 [PMID: 33644209 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i6.1408]
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Woo Jong Shin, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Hanyang University, Guri Hospital, 153 Gyeongchoon-ro, Guri 11923, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. swj0208@hanyang.ac.kr
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Anesthesiology
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World J Clin Cases. Feb 26, 2021; 9(6): 1408-1415 Published online Feb 26, 2021. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i6.1408
Unilateral pulmonary hemorrhage caused by negative pressure pulmonary edema: A case report
Hyung Joon Park, Seung Ho Park, Un Tak Woo, Sang Yun Cho, Woo Jae Jeon, Woo Jong Shin
Hyung Joon Park, Seung Ho Park, Un Tak Woo, Sang Yun Cho, Woo Jae Jeon, Woo Jong Shin, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Hanyang University, Guri Hospital, Guri 11923, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Author contributions: Park HJ made administrative, technical, or material support and did the literature searches; Woo UT and Park SH had full access to all of the laboratory data of the patient and the accuracy of the data analysis; Jeon WJ was involved in case report manuscript design, analysis, and interpretation of picture and laboratory data and drafted the manuscript; Cho SY and Shin WJ were involved in critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content; All of the authors have reviewed the manuscript and accepted it in the current form for publication.
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Corresponding author: Woo Jong Shin, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Hanyang University, Guri Hospital, 153 Gyeongchoon-ro, Guri 11923, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. swj0208@hanyang.ac.kr
Received: October 1, 2020 Peer-review started: October 1, 2020 First decision: November 26, 2020 Revised: November 28, 2020 Accepted: January 6, 2021 Article in press: January 6, 2021 Published online: February 26, 2021 Processing time: 128 Days and 10.5 Hours
Abstract
BACKGROUND
Unilateral pulmonary hemorrhage is typically reported in young and healthy men with upper respiratory tract obstruction during anesthesia in special situations. Negative pressure in the lungs is created, resulting in negative pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE).
CASE SUMMARY
A 78-year-old male patient diagnosed with spinal stenosis was admitted to receive a unilateral laminectomy with bilateral decompression. The patient had been diagnosed with hypertension four years earlier and asthma more than 70 years earlier. We experienced a unilateral alveolar hemorrhage associated with NPPE that occurred in a longstanding asthma patient who bit the intubated endotracheal tube for a short period during posture change at the end of surgery. Because diffuse alveolar hemorrhage accompanied by NPPE was caused in this case by airway obstruction in an older patient with asthma without known risk factors, anesthesiologists should be careful not to induce airway irritation during anesthesia awakening in asthma patients.
CONCLUSION
Because diffuse alveolar hemorrhage accompanied by NPPE can occur, anesthesiologists should take care not to induce airway irritation.
Core Tip: In this case, because diffuse alveolar bleeding occurred after negative pressure pulmonary edema without risk factors, anesthesiologists should be careful not to induce irritation during anesthesia awakening in asthma patients.
