Case reportMassive Gas Under Diaphragm After Lung Transplantation: Pneumatosis Intestinalis Simulating Bowel Perforation
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Multiple factors predispose to the development of PI in transplant patients. Steroid therapy, infectious colitis, graft-versus-host disease, and septic shock [6] are some of the important concerns. Steroid therapy increases the risk of PI development significantly. It is thought that steroids cause resolution of Peyer patches in the bowel wall, resulting in mucosal defects through which intraluminal gas dissects into the submucosal or subserosal regions.
Free air in the abdomen probably
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