A 67-year-old man got through lung cancer surgery without major problems. About eight months later, three seemingly unrelated symptoms appeared: palpitations, a tight throat and a stuffy nose. All three got worse when he was upright and eased when he lay flat.
Doctors at the Clinical Oncology Center of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital in China described his case in an April 2026 report in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. They called it "a peculiar triad" of symptoms, one that, to their knowledge, had not been previously reported after lobectomy.
