Una reconsideración de la fiebre postoperatoria por atelectasia pulmonar.


Por: Pérez-Aispuro I., Pérez-Castro J., Avelar-Garnica F., Wacher-Rodarte N., Lifshitz-Guinzberg A.

Publicada: 1 ene 1991
Resumen:
Atelectasis has been reported as a common cause of fever in the first 48 hours after surgery. A group of one hundred patients programmed for elective abdominal surgery were studied with chest roentgenograms, both before and 48 hours after surgery. Thirty-one of them developed atelectasis and eighteen developed fever. Four of the patients with and fourteen without atelectasis, had fever. Five cases had unexplained fever, three of them with pulmonary atelectasis. These findings suggest that atelectasis can cause postoperative fever, but it is not the most common cause of fever in the first 48 hours after surgery.

Filiaciones:
Pérez-Aispuro I.:
 Hospital de Especialidades, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social., Mexico

Pérez-Castro J.:
 Hospital de Especialidades, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social., Mexico

Avelar-Garnica F.:
 Hospital de Especialidades, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social., Mexico

Wacher-Rodarte N.:
 Hospital de Especialidades, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social., Mexico

Lifshitz-Guinzberg A.:
 Hospital de Especialidades, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social., Mexico
ISSN: 00163813
Editorial
ACAD NACIONAL MEDICINA MEXICO, CENTRO MEDICO NACIONAL SIGLO XXI, UNIDAD CONGRESOS, GLOQUE B, PROMER PISO, MEXICO, DF 06725, MEXICO, México
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 127 Número: 1
Páginas: 27-30
ID de PubMed: 1959735