Case Report

Transfusion related acute lung injury after open heart surgery

  • Celalettin Günay
  • Faruk Cingöz
  • Mehmet Ali Şahin
  • Atilla İyisoy
  • Kamil Sarkışlalı
  • Kubilay Karabacak
  • Tolga Tatar
  • Mehmet Arslan
  • Harun Tatar

Received Date: 22.03.2007 Accepted Date: 25.06.2007 Gulhane Med J 2008;50(2):131-133

Transfusion related acute lung injury is an uncommon complication presenting with dyspnea, fever and hypotension. Its incidence is 0.04% to 0.16% per patient administered transfusion. It is a clinical entity that can frequently be confused with pump lung in patients who are performed cardiopulmonary bypass. In this article the differential diagnosis of pump lung and acute lung injury developing after transfusion of plasma is discussed.

Keywords: Acute lung injury, transfusion