Air Travel and Pneumothorax

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Air Travel and Pneumothorax Xiaowen Hu, MD, Clayton T. Cowl, MD, FCCP, Misbah Baqir, MBBS, Jay H. Ryu, MD, FCCP CHEST Volume 145, Issue 4, Pages 688-694 (April 2014) DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-2363 Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 High-resolution CT scan of the chest of a 50-year-old female nonsmoker with pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis demonstrating a loculated right pneumothorax that has been present for 1 y. Talc pleurodesis had been performed after two episodes of right-sided pneumothorax. She was asymptomatic during to and from transatlantic flights during the month following this CT scan study. CHEST 2014 145, 688-694DOI: (10.1378/chest.13-2363) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions