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Archives of Medical Case Reports

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Volume 5 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/casereports.5.027

Resolution of Osborn Waves after the Complete Resolution of Spontaneous Pneumothorax in a Normothermic Patient

Arafat Ali Farooqui1, Syed Mohammad Mazhar Uddin1, Sanjay Kumar Maheshwari1, Omair Ali Khan1, Azka Naeem1,*, Samra Hameed2, Shelly Brejt3, Susan Lin4
  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, USA
  • 2Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan
  • 3Department of Cardiology, NYU Langone, New York, NY 10016, USA
  • 4Mount Sinai, 3201 Kings Highway Brooklyn, USA
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Corresponding Author

Azka Naeem, anaeem@maimonidesmed.org

Received Date: August 01, 2023

Accepted Date: August 17, 2023

Citation:

Farooqui AA, Uddin SMM, Maheshwari SK, Khan OA, Naeem A, Hameed S. Resolution of Osborn Waves after the Complete Resolution of Spontaneous Pneumothorax in a Normothermic Patient. Arch Med Case Rep. 2023;5(1):38-40.


Copyright: © 2023 Farooqui AA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

We report a case of Osborn waves occurring in a 55-year-old normothermic male patient with spontaneous pneumothorax that resolved with the resolution of the pneumothorax. The patient was presented with a 2 week history of shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain, and cough. He was found to have a left sided pneumothorax that persisted even after chest tube placement. The Electrocardiography (EKG) showed Osborn waves. He had a normal temperature, normal electrolytes, and a normal echocardiogram. Pneumothorax resolved after pleurodesis and pleurectomy. Post-operative EKG showed complete resolution of Osborn waves.

Keywords

Pneumothorax, Hypothermia, Electrocardiography, Chest tubes, Video-assisted thoracic surgery

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