| Autor: |
Burton GG; Respiratory Services Department, Kettering Medical Center, Ohio 45429., Wagshul FA, Henderson D, Kime SW |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Chest [Chest] 1991 Jun; Vol. 99 (6), pp. 1520-3. |
| DOI: |
10.1378/chest.99.6.1520 |
| Abstrakt: |
A 50-year-old man with pulmonary fibrosis and COPD presented with worsening cough, dyspnea, chest pain, and hypoxemia of no readily apparent etiology, approximately four weeks after insertion of a transtracheal oxygen therapy catheter. Despite vigorous bronchial hygiene therapy, the patient died. Autopsy revealed obstruction of the trachea by a large mucous ball. We point out the nonspecificity of physical and radiologic findings associated with this condition and suggest that serial flow-volume loop analysis or earlier use of fiberoptic bronchoscopy might have been of assistance in premortem diagnosis of the mucous plug. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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