Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case

Authors

  • Luis Alberto Santos Pérez Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

hemothorax/diagnosis, thoracotomy, efficacy

Abstract

Hemothoraxes are a rare clinical entity at the Intensive Care Unit when there is not a previous trauma. It appears sometimes as a clinical manifestation of tumours, iatrogenies, coagulopathies, or as a non-traumatic hemothorax, called spontaneous hemothorax. The case of a 22 year old man with a spontaneous hemothorax and no previous history of trauma, cough, sputum production or fever, is presented. The patient was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Arnaldo Milián Castro University Hospital in Santa Clara city, Villa Clara, Cuba . The diagnosis by pleural biopsy was chronic pleuritis with mesothelial reaction, and the case was considered as an idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax.

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Author Biography

Luis Alberto Santos Pérez, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Medicina Interna. Especialista de II Grado en Medicina Intensiva y Emergencias. Máster en Enfermedades Infecciosas. Máster en Medicina Intensiva y Emergencias en la APS. Profesor Asistente de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

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Santos Pérez LA. Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2010 Apr. 4 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];4(2):48-52. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/504

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2010): April-June

Section

Case Reports

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