What causes shortness of breath after undergoing lung surgery?
Patient: Hello, my husband just had surgery 7 weeks ago he had a paralyzed right diaphragm the dr. shored up the diaphragm and peeled the right lung. today he has more swelling than ever a little short of breath and still cannot do anything hard to lift even a gallon of juice his dr. keeps saying this is normal what do you think? his right lung is still folded over and has not inflated and when he breaths he can fill the diaphragm rubbing up and down. he also has something going on when he breaths he has some kind of sigh or something which he never had before. Doctor: HIWell come to HCMI really appreciate your concern, if this is the post surgical complication so this could be normal one if this is the likely to happens in such surgery and easily be managed but if this is not so then it may not be normal, as matter of fact such query needs complicate clinical examination and case study then and then it can be said anything perfect, better to have second opinion, hope this information helps, take care.