Re-expansion Pulmonary Edema: A Rare Complication of Chest Drain Insertion in Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Emergency Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu Sabah, Malaysia (Dr Firdaus Bolong); Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu Sabah, Malaysia (Dr Pang Tze Ping); and Emergency Department (Dr Shanmuga Ratnam) and Cardiothoracic Department (Dr Raja Badrol Hisham), Hospital Queen Elizabeth II, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Corresponding Author: Mohammad Firdaus Bolong, MD, MMed (Emergency), Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia ([email protected]).

The authors thank the director general of Health Malaysia for the opportunity to publish this case report.

Dr Mohammad Firdaus and Dr Selvendra are emergency physicians in charge of the emergency department of a hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Both graduated from local universities as emergency physicians in 2020 and currently serving the district. Dr Raja Mohd Burhanudeen is a medical officer working in the cardiothoracic department in a local hospital. Dr Nicholas is a psychiatrist in Universiti Malaysia Sabah and has written multiple manuscripts and published in a lot of medical journals.

The authors unanimously agree to transfer all copyright to the journal in the event of the manuscript is accepted by the journal for publication.

Disclosure: The author reports no conflicts of interest.

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