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EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 124-127Publisher
BASKENT UNIV
DOI: 10.6002/ect.2016.0249
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Intraperitoneal free air; Lung transplantation
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We report a case of a 60-year-old male patient with recurrent episodes of free gas in the peritoneal and the retroperitoneal cavities as well as pneumatosis intestinalis 3 months after bilateral lung transplant. Interestingly, despite staged laparotomy within the scope of the first episode, no cause for free gas could be found. In a second episode of symptomatically pneumatosis, a conservative treatment with metronidazole was performed successfully. Despite several case reports on patients with pneumatosis intestinalis after lung transplant, an effective treatment strategy has not yet been proposed.
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