Abstract
Barotraumatic esophageal rupture (Boerhaave’s syndrome) is a rare and life-threatening disease, described as a Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) complication in a very small series. We report the case of a 72-year-old man admitted to the Emergency Department (ED) for severe dyspnea in a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) stage Gold III. After NIV treatment, the patient suffered esophageal perforation with mediastinal and pleural contamination: emergency surgical treatment was successful for the esophageal repair, but the patient developed a fatal septic shock 12 days after surgery. Among NIV complications, few cases concern esophagogastric perforation: our case report describes an uncommon clinical situation treated with a successful damage control surgery approach.
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