Abstract

Abstract Iatrogenic complications such as phrenic nerve injury are common during cardiac surgery. Sometimes, unilateral phrenic nerve injury during cardiac surgery may result in persistent weakness or paralysis which may manifest as exertional breathlessness months later with mild restrictive ventilatory defect on spirometry and elevated hemidiaphragm on chest X-ray.

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