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Enhanced inferior limb CT on POD 8. This CT scan shows that the right leg vein had localized vasodilations and deficits (arrow).
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On POD 8, enhanced whole-body computed tomography (CT), which was performed to identify the cause of prolonged hypoxia, showed a right deep leg vein thrombosis (Fig. 1).
A chest X-ray (CXR) on POD 14 shows that the right pleural fluid increased rapidly, and the right lung field had permeability decay.
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However, because a CXR taken on POD 14 showed an acute increase of the right pleural effusion (Fig. 2) and because the patient's hemoglobin (Hb) level decreased to 2.2 g/dl we decided to reinsert the chest drain into the right pleural space.