| Autor: |
Aw DK; Department of General Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore., Tan MZ; Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore., Yii AC; Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore., Ng DH; Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Respiratory medicine case reports [Respir Med Case Rep] 2016 Sep 19; Vol. 19, pp. 173-176. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Sep 19 (Print Publication: 2016). |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.09.004 |
| Abstrakt: |
In the last twenty years, the field of bronchoscopy has become increasingly more complex and invasive. It is now widely used in the management of pulmonary diseases and has the benefit of low mortality and complication rates. Overall incidence of complications and mortality reported ranges around 1% and 0.02% respectively. Common complications of bronchoscopy include pulmonary haemorrhage, desaturation, pneumothorax, and pulmonary oedema. However, facial and neck petechiae associated with subcutaneous hemorrhage post-bronchoscopy has not been reported before in the literature. We hereby report two novel cases of facial/neck petechiae post-bronchoscopy as a complication to be recognized by bronchoscopists. It is essential that bronchoscopists recognise such phenomenon as the clinical presentation is visually alarming to both the patient and clinician. It is usually self-resolving. However such presentation after bronchoscopy may trigger extensive and unnecessary investigations from the physician. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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