Author(s)

Giovanni Zagli, Rosario Spina, Stefano Batacchi, Giancarlo Freschi, Manlio Acquafresca, Antonio Taddei, Adriano Peris

Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit of Emergency Department, Careggi Teaching Hospital, Florence, Italy.
Department of Surgical Pathology, University of Florence and Careggi Teaching Hospital, Italy.
Diagnostic Imaging Department, Careggi Teaching Hospital, Florence, Italy.

We report an unexpected massive left pneumothorax at the end of a digestive upper endoscopy without evidences of perforation or airway over-pressure. The possible air passage through a diaphragmatic failing is discussed.

Upper Endoscopic Procedure; Pneumothorax; Diaphragmatic Failing

G. Zagli, R. Spina, S. Batacchi, G. Freschi, M. Acquafresca, A. Taddei and A. Peris, "Unexpected Hypertensive Pneumothorax after Digestive Upper Endoscopy: A Case Report," Open Journal of Anesthesiology, Vol. 2 No. 4, 2012, pp. 183-184. doi: 10.4236/ojanes.2012.24041.