Welter Stefan, Hinterthaner Marc, Stamatis Georgios
Ruhrlandklinik Essen, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tüschener Weg 40, G-45239 Essen, Germany.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2006 Apr;29(4):630-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.11.041. Epub 2006 Feb 14.
A rare case of a patient with progressive dyspnoea due to atrial compression between ascending and descending aorta is demonstrated. After neoadjuvant chemoradiation for a locally advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer stage IIIb, he had a left-sided pneumonectomy. The underlying problem for cardiac compression was the extreme mediastinal shift reinforced by a congenital pectus excavatum. Our treatment was a Ravitch procedure with fair result.
