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Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia

We present the case of a 35-year-old patient without pathological history who developed hemopneumothorax due to altitude barotrauma during a commercial airline flight. The computed tomography (CT) of the chest identified the presence of right hydropneumothorax and emphysema “blebs” and bubbles. Afte...

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Autores principales: Leonte, Iustina, Ivanov, Karina, Marghescu, Angela Ștefania, Matache, Șerban Radu, Negru, Florica Valeria, Iorga, Ana Luiza, Dumitru, Silviu Mihail, Mahler, Beatrice
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510111
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13142367
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author Leonte, Iustina
Ivanov, Karina
Marghescu, Angela Ștefania
Matache, Șerban Radu
Negru, Florica Valeria
Iorga, Ana Luiza
Dumitru, Silviu Mihail
Mahler, Beatrice
author_facet Leonte, Iustina
Ivanov, Karina
Marghescu, Angela Ștefania
Matache, Șerban Radu
Negru, Florica Valeria
Iorga, Ana Luiza
Dumitru, Silviu Mihail
Mahler, Beatrice
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description We present the case of a 35-year-old patient without pathological history who developed hemopneumothorax due to altitude barotrauma during a commercial airline flight. The computed tomography (CT) of the chest identified the presence of right hydropneumothorax and emphysema “blebs” and bubbles. After the therapeutic insertion of a drain tube, the patient returned to the country by land transport. Three weeks later, he was diagnosed with right-sided pleurisy based on a CT scan with contrast material. A surgical intervention was then performed, and three biopsy samples were taken; the histopathological result highlighted suggestive elements for the diagnosis of desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP).
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spelling pubmed-103785362023-07-29 Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia Leonte, Iustina Ivanov, Karina Marghescu, Angela Ștefania Matache, Șerban Radu Negru, Florica Valeria Iorga, Ana Luiza Dumitru, Silviu Mihail Mahler, Beatrice Diagnostics (Basel) Interesting Images We present the case of a 35-year-old patient without pathological history who developed hemopneumothorax due to altitude barotrauma during a commercial airline flight. The computed tomography (CT) of the chest identified the presence of right hydropneumothorax and emphysema “blebs” and bubbles. After the therapeutic insertion of a drain tube, the patient returned to the country by land transport. Three weeks later, he was diagnosed with right-sided pleurisy based on a CT scan with contrast material. A surgical intervention was then performed, and three biopsy samples were taken; the histopathological result highlighted suggestive elements for the diagnosis of desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP). MDPI 2023-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10378536/ /pubmed/37510111 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13142367 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Leonte, Iustina
Ivanov, Karina
Marghescu, Angela Ștefania
Matache, Șerban Radu
Negru, Florica Valeria
Iorga, Ana Luiza
Dumitru, Silviu Mihail
Mahler, Beatrice
Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia
title Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia
title_full Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia
title_fullStr Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia
title_full_unstemmed Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia
title_short Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia
title_sort sequence of rare diagnoses in a young patient: altitude barotrauma hemopneumothorax and desquamative interstitial pneumonia
topic Interesting Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510111
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13142367
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