Cough-induced rib fracture in a smoker: a case report

BACKGROUND: Coughing is considered an important mechanism that helps the body get rid of foreign substances or prevent their entry into the tracheobronchial tree. Infrequently, after the onset of coughing, patients presenting with persistent chest pain are found to have rib fractures. Among the case...

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Autores principales: Daccache, Aimee, Haddad, Jad, Ghanem, Ahmad, Feghali, Elio Junior, El Osta, Bassel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32887671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-020-02497-4
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author Daccache, Aimee
Haddad, Jad
Ghanem, Ahmad
Feghali, Elio Junior
El Osta, Bassel
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description BACKGROUND: Coughing is considered an important mechanism that helps the body get rid of foreign substances or prevent their entry into the tracheobronchial tree. Infrequently, after the onset of coughing, patients presenting with persistent chest pain are found to have rib fractures. Among the cases reported for cough-induced rib fractures, the maximum number of fractured ribs was found to be four. CASE PRESENTATION: In this report, we present a case of a healthy 50-year-old Lebanese smoker who developed a total of six fractures in five ribs, asymmetrically, after coughing for 2.5 months. CONCLUSION: This case report is, to our knowledge, the first to describe six cough-induced rib fractures in a smoker without an underlying predisposition.
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spelling pubmed-74875682020-09-15 Cough-induced rib fracture in a smoker: a case report Daccache, Aimee Haddad, Jad Ghanem, Ahmad Feghali, Elio Junior El Osta, Bassel J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Coughing is considered an important mechanism that helps the body get rid of foreign substances or prevent their entry into the tracheobronchial tree. Infrequently, after the onset of coughing, patients presenting with persistent chest pain are found to have rib fractures. Among the cases reported for cough-induced rib fractures, the maximum number of fractured ribs was found to be four. CASE PRESENTATION: In this report, we present a case of a healthy 50-year-old Lebanese smoker who developed a total of six fractures in five ribs, asymmetrically, after coughing for 2.5 months. CONCLUSION: This case report is, to our knowledge, the first to describe six cough-induced rib fractures in a smoker without an underlying predisposition. BioMed Central 2020-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7487568/ /pubmed/32887671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-020-02497-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487568/
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