Abstract

Surgical removal of giant pulmonary bullae is usually considered inadvisable in patients with either hypoxemia or hypercapnia. A successful operation was performed on a patient with both hypoxemia and hypercapnia. Preoperative and postoperative physiologic data are presented. Those data which suggested a favorable outcome are compared with those which did not.

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