Massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report

BACKGROUND: Bronchitis obliterans is a severe and extremely rare complication of respiratory tract infections in children and is characterized by massive atelectasis and collapse of the affected lung. Of the rare cases reported in the literature all surviving children underwent surgical resection of...

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Autores principales: Govaere, Elke, Van Raemdonck, Dirk, Devlieger, Hugo, Smet, Maria-Helena, Verbeken, Eric, Proesmans, Marijke, De Boeck, Kris
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1276800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16242028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-5-39
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author Govaere, Elke
Van Raemdonck, Dirk
Devlieger, Hugo
Smet, Maria-Helena
Verbeken, Eric
Proesmans, Marijke
De Boeck, Kris
author_facet Govaere, Elke
Van Raemdonck, Dirk
Devlieger, Hugo
Smet, Maria-Helena
Verbeken, Eric
Proesmans, Marijke
De Boeck, Kris
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description BACKGROUND: Bronchitis obliterans is a severe and extremely rare complication of respiratory tract infections in children and is characterized by massive atelectasis and collapse of the affected lung. Of the rare cases reported in the literature all surviving children underwent surgical resection of the collapsed lung. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an infant with bronchitis obliterans that was treated conservatively. 5 years after the initial event, partial lung re-expansion was documented. CONCLUSION: This case therefore supports a conservative treatment whenever possible with pneumonectomy only as a last treatment option.
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spelling pubmed-12768002005-11-03 Massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report Govaere, Elke Van Raemdonck, Dirk Devlieger, Hugo Smet, Maria-Helena Verbeken, Eric Proesmans, Marijke De Boeck, Kris BMC Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Bronchitis obliterans is a severe and extremely rare complication of respiratory tract infections in children and is characterized by massive atelectasis and collapse of the affected lung. Of the rare cases reported in the literature all surviving children underwent surgical resection of the collapsed lung. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an infant with bronchitis obliterans that was treated conservatively. 5 years after the initial event, partial lung re-expansion was documented. CONCLUSION: This case therefore supports a conservative treatment whenever possible with pneumonectomy only as a last treatment option. BioMed Central 2005-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC1276800/ /pubmed/16242028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-5-39 Text en Copyright © 2005 Govaere et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Govaere, Elke
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Devlieger, Hugo
Smet, Maria-Helena
Verbeken, Eric
Proesmans, Marijke
De Boeck, Kris
Massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report
title Massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report
title_full Massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report
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title_full_unstemmed Massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report
title_short Massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report
title_sort massive lung collapse with partial resolution after several years: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1276800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16242028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-5-39
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