Abstract
Respiratory failure is an infrequent complication after open-heart surgery, particularly in the absence of significant preoperative lung pathology. This report describes a patient who remained ventilator-dependent for nine weeks after aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery with bilateral diaphragmatic paralysis.
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