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The treatment strategy in pregnant women with a pulmonary abscess is considered challenging since adverse effects on the fetus must be avoided to ensure safe delivery.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A 34-year-old female patient at 24\u00a0weeks of gestation (G2P1) was admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology due to sudden right chest pain. The patient had no significant medical history, including congenital anomalies, and no history of drug addiction or smoking. Laboratory data indicated high levels of inflammation (white blood cell 12,000\/\u00b5L, C-reactive protein 16.0\u00a0mg\/dL), and computed tomography demonstrated a large intrapulmonary cyst located in the middle of the right lower lobe, with some fluid collection. As the patient had no medical history of congenital pulmonary anomalies, she was initially diagnosed with a pulmonary cyst infection and treated with intravenous antibiotics. However, the infection did not resolve for over a week, and a spike in fever developed after admission. There was no definitive evidence concerning the risk of preterm delivery and fetal abortion during non-obstetric surgery. However, to control the severely infected pulmonary abscess that was refractory to antibiotics and obtain a pathological diagnosis while saving the life of both the mother and fetus, we elected to perform an emergent right lower lobectomy by open thoracotomy with a fissureless maneuver after receiving informed consent. Postoperatively, the infection gradually improved, and the patient was discharged on the 16th postoperative day without any major complications in the mother or fetus. Although she later experienced coronavirus disease-19 at 29\u00a0weeks of gestation, a boy was born at 40th weeks of gestation without any complications. Pathologically, no infectious agents, malignancies, or congenital anomalies other than lung abscesses associated with the pulmonary infarction were observed. The mother and child were healthy 1\u00a0year postoperatively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We experienced a rare case of a pulmonary abscess in a pregnant woman who needed an emergent right lower lobectomy to control the severe infection and obtain a correct pathological diagnosis. Under cooperation from an obstetrician and anesthesiologist, emergency pulmonary resection can be performed safely for serious abscess formation even for pregnant women who have several months left until delivery.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s40792-024-01932-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,23]],"date-time":"2024-05-23T11:01:45Z","timestamp":1716462105000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Emergency right lower lobectomy for severe pulmonary abscess in a pregnant woman at the 25th week of gestation: a case report"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6048-6319","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haruaki","family":"Hino","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuki","family":"Yasuhara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Katsutoshi","family":"Nakahata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Takahiro","family":"Utsumi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Natsumi","family":"Maru","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hiroshi","family":"Matsui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yohei","family":"Taniguchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tomohito","family":"Saito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Koji","family":"Tsuta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hidetaka","family":"Okada","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tomohiro","family":"Murakawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"1932_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"744","DOI":"10.4065\/78.6.744","volume":"78","author":"JH Ryu","year":"2003","unstructured":"Ryu JH, Swensen SJ. 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