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Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in A Patient with a Functional Single Lung

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ankara University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Destructed lung and pneumonectomy are associated with anatomic and physiologic changes that may interfere with the conduct of subsequent open heart surgery. Here we report a case of an autopneumonectomized patient who required open heart surgery. The preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative management of this patient was unique. Open heart procedures on patients with a single lung can be performed with acceptable operative mortality and morbidity.