Surgical correction of postpneumonectomy stridor by saline breast implantation

Postpneumonectomy syndrome is a rare complication of pneumonectomy and is c haracterized by progressive dyspnea, strider, and repeated chest infections . It is caused by displacement and rotation of the mediastinal structures i nto the pneumonectomy space, producing compression and malacic changes in t he trachea and remaining bronchus. We report the successful long-term resul ts of mediastinal correction, cardiopexy and plombage with saline breast pr ostheses in a 59-year-old man after right pneumonectomy for carcinoma of th e lung (Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1704-6) (C) 2001 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.