Double Valve Replacement in A Patient Having Swyer-James, Macleod (Hyperlucent Unilateral Lung) Syndrome

Öztekin OTO, Ünal AÇIKEL ,Egemen TÜZÜN, Baran UĞURLU, Hüdai ÇATALYÜREK

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi/ Göğüs Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı, İzmir

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Swyer-James, MacLeod or Unilateral Hyperlucent Lung is one of the very few diseases which was suspected by the detection of the hyperlucency of öne lung or one lobe in the routinely obtained chest radiography. The diagnosis is made after broncoscopic, radiographic and angiographic investigations. In this paper, the succesfull surgical treatment and clinical course of a case with MacLeod syndrome to whom open heart surgery was performed for his heart valve disease, was presented.

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