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Unusual complication of bronchoscopy
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%...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27766201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.09.004 |
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author | Aw, Darius Kang Lie Tan, Matthew Zhen Wei Yii, Anthony Chau Ang Ng, Dorothy Hui Lin |
author_facet | Aw, Darius Kang Lie Tan, Matthew Zhen Wei Yii, Anthony Chau Ang Ng, Dorothy Hui Lin |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-50662962016-10-20 Unusual complication of bronchoscopy Aw, Darius Kang Lie Tan, Matthew Zhen Wei Yii, Anthony Chau Ang Ng, Dorothy Hui Lin Respir Med Case Rep Case Report 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. Elsevier 2016-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5066296/ /pubmed/27766201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.09.004 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Aw, Darius Kang Lie Tan, Matthew Zhen Wei Yii, Anthony Chau Ang Ng, Dorothy Hui Lin Unusual complication of bronchoscopy |
title | Unusual complication of bronchoscopy |
title_full | Unusual complication of bronchoscopy |
title_fullStr | Unusual complication of bronchoscopy |
title_full_unstemmed | Unusual complication of bronchoscopy |
title_short | Unusual complication of bronchoscopy |
title_sort | unusual complication of bronchoscopy |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27766201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.09.004 |
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