Describe 5 pulmonary / pleural complications that can occur following lung-resection surgery?

Pulmonary
  • Pulmonary oedema (9%) 1
  • Post-pneumonectomy syndrome 1
  • Orthodeoxia–platypnoea syndrome 1
  • Lobar torsion (<0.5%) 1
  • Pneumonia 1
  • Atelectasis 1
  • Haemorrhage 1
  • Chronic respiratory failure 1
Pleural
  • Prolonged air leak and persistent pleural space 1
  • Bronchopleural fistula 1
  • Empyema 1
  • Chylothorax 1