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Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma

Spontaneous medastinal emphysema, as a complication of acute severe asthma, is an uncommon entity. It usually runs a benign course and resolves spontaneously without any surgical intervention. Recognition of this complication is critical, as it has to be differentiated from other life threatening on...

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Autores principales: Aleemuddin, N. M., Bahmed, Farah
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20859494
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.68224
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description Spontaneous medastinal emphysema, as a complication of acute severe asthma, is an uncommon entity. It usually runs a benign course and resolves spontaneously without any surgical intervention. Recognition of this complication is critical, as it has to be differentiated from other life threatening ones including oesophageal rupture, Boerhave’s syndrome, acute coronary syndrome and pulmonary embolism. This case is being presented to emphasize its recognition in the differential diagnosis of complications arising from acute severe asthma and to present its management strategy in detail.
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spelling pubmed-29367392010-09-21 Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma Aleemuddin, N. M. Bahmed, Farah Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Spontaneous medastinal emphysema, as a complication of acute severe asthma, is an uncommon entity. It usually runs a benign course and resolves spontaneously without any surgical intervention. Recognition of this complication is critical, as it has to be differentiated from other life threatening ones including oesophageal rupture, Boerhave’s syndrome, acute coronary syndrome and pulmonary embolism. This case is being presented to emphasize its recognition in the differential diagnosis of complications arising from acute severe asthma and to present its management strategy in detail. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2936739/ /pubmed/20859494 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.68224 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aleemuddin, N. M.
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Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma
title Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma
title_full Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma
title_fullStr Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma
title_short Spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma
title_sort spontaneous pnemomedastinum in acute severe asthma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20859494
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.68224
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