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Hypoventilation - Failure to take deep breaths can result in the collapse of part of the lungs. This is very common during surgery, especially with general anesthesia, and when breathing is shallow due to pain (such as with rib fractures). Hypoventilation is the most common cause of atelectasis.
1 Different types of pneumonia, an infection of your lungs, may temporarily cause atelectasis. 2  Pneumothorax. Air leaks into the space between your lungs and chest wall, indirectly causing some or all of a lung to collapse.  Scarring of lung tissue. Scarring could be caused by injury, lung disease or surgery.