Why am i having collapsed lung after heart surgery?

Open Chest Cavity: There are many reason to have a collapsed lung. However, the biggest reason is because your surgeon just opened up your chest and completely changed the way your lungs inflate. Heart surgery is a big deal. Stay tough!

Several: Several reasons: air in the chest is very common as the very delicate pleura may be entered anytime. This is called collapse- pneumothorax. The chest tubes drain fluid and air. Post operative atelectasis is also called collapse and follows chest surgery, pain, poor cough, and improves with incentive spirometry, cough with pain control.

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Post op complication: Collapsed lung after chest surgery is a known complication. To answer why specifically this happened with you, you need to discuss with your surgeon. It is not inappropriate to ask your surgeon what happened that you got this particular complication. It does not imply your surgeon did something wrong, but explaining what happened to you is appropriate.