[Pleuroperitoneal communication with liver cirrhosis and chronic kidney disease needed hemodialysis successfully treated by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; report of a case]

Kyobu Geka. 2012 Jul;65(7):599-601.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 59-year-old man treated with hemodialysis for liver cirhhosis and chronic kidney disease developed right pleural effusion and ascites. Ascites always decreased after thoracocentesis for pleural effusion. In spite of repeated treatment with chest tube drainage, massive pleural effusion reappeared. Under the diagnosis of pleuroperitoneal communication, surgical repair of the diaphragm by video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) were performed. Bulla and pin hole were found and they were resected and sutured. Surgery was safely and successfully accomplished though the patient had Child-Pugh B liver cirhhosis. Pleural effusion disappeared after surgery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Diaphragm / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Diseases / therapy
  • Liver Cirrhosis / complications*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Peritoneal Diseases / surgery*
  • Pleural Effusion / surgery*
  • Renal Dialysis*
  • Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted*