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Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Paediatric foreign body aspiration constitutes significant lethal sequela worldwide. This is the first descriptive Syrian study that aims to describe the epidemiology of foreign body aspiration in a tertiary centre in Syria. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study conducted at the...

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Autores principales: Mohsen, Fatema, Bakkar, Batoul, Melhem, Sara, Altom, Roula, Sawaf, Bisher, Alkhija, Imad, Nahas, Louei Darjazini
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33817384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06537
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author Mohsen, Fatema
Bakkar, Batoul
Melhem, Sara
Altom, Roula
Sawaf, Bisher
Alkhija, Imad
Nahas, Louei Darjazini
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Bakkar, Batoul
Melhem, Sara
Altom, Roula
Sawaf, Bisher
Alkhija, Imad
Nahas, Louei Darjazini
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description BACKGROUND: Paediatric foreign body aspiration constitutes significant lethal sequela worldwide. This is the first descriptive Syrian study that aims to describe the epidemiology of foreign body aspiration in a tertiary centre in Syria. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study conducted at the Children's University Hospital, Damascus, from 2011 to 2018 during the Syrian crisis. The children underwent rigid bronchoscopy at Al Mouwasat University hospital, the only properly equipped hospital to perform paediatric rigid bronchoscopy in Damascus. We included all cases with complete medical records of children under the age of 13 years with positive bronchoscopy findings of foreign body aspiration. The records of patients were examined, and data extracted included physical examination, CXR reports, bronchoscopy reports, and complications. Statistical package for social sciences 25.0 program for Windows was used to report frequencies, percentages, means, medians, and standard deviations. RESULTS: Of 560 children diagnosed with foreign body aspiration, the peak incidence was at the age of 1–3 years 376 (67.2%). Most patients presented with an explicit history of inhalation 453 (80.9%). The most frequent clinical findings were dyspnoea 320 (57.1%), wheezing 308 (55%), and chest retraction 209 (37.35%). Hyperinflation 260 (46.4%) followed by pulmonary infiltration 197 (35.2%) were the most common abnormal radiological findings. Seeds 273 (48.8%) were the most frequent foreign body extracted by rigid bronchoscopy. The right main bronchus 255 (40.2%) was the most frequent site of foreign body lodgement. Lobar pneumonia 16 (2.8%) was the commonest complication of foreign body aspiration. CONCLUSION: Foreign body aspiration is a major public health problem in Syria. The child's welfare must be our paramount concern. To prevent this accident, we should address a change in raising public health awareness with regards to appropriate food and eating habits. This would limit hazardous complications.
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spelling pubmed-80104082021-04-02 Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study Mohsen, Fatema Bakkar, Batoul Melhem, Sara Altom, Roula Sawaf, Bisher Alkhija, Imad Nahas, Louei Darjazini Heliyon Research Article BACKGROUND: Paediatric foreign body aspiration constitutes significant lethal sequela worldwide. This is the first descriptive Syrian study that aims to describe the epidemiology of foreign body aspiration in a tertiary centre in Syria. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study conducted at the Children's University Hospital, Damascus, from 2011 to 2018 during the Syrian crisis. The children underwent rigid bronchoscopy at Al Mouwasat University hospital, the only properly equipped hospital to perform paediatric rigid bronchoscopy in Damascus. We included all cases with complete medical records of children under the age of 13 years with positive bronchoscopy findings of foreign body aspiration. The records of patients were examined, and data extracted included physical examination, CXR reports, bronchoscopy reports, and complications. Statistical package for social sciences 25.0 program for Windows was used to report frequencies, percentages, means, medians, and standard deviations. RESULTS: Of 560 children diagnosed with foreign body aspiration, the peak incidence was at the age of 1–3 years 376 (67.2%). Most patients presented with an explicit history of inhalation 453 (80.9%). The most frequent clinical findings were dyspnoea 320 (57.1%), wheezing 308 (55%), and chest retraction 209 (37.35%). Hyperinflation 260 (46.4%) followed by pulmonary infiltration 197 (35.2%) were the most common abnormal radiological findings. Seeds 273 (48.8%) were the most frequent foreign body extracted by rigid bronchoscopy. The right main bronchus 255 (40.2%) was the most frequent site of foreign body lodgement. Lobar pneumonia 16 (2.8%) was the commonest complication of foreign body aspiration. CONCLUSION: Foreign body aspiration is a major public health problem in Syria. The child's welfare must be our paramount concern. To prevent this accident, we should address a change in raising public health awareness with regards to appropriate food and eating habits. This would limit hazardous complications. Elsevier 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8010408/ /pubmed/33817384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06537 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Melhem, Sara
Altom, Roula
Sawaf, Bisher
Alkhija, Imad
Nahas, Louei Darjazini
Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study
title Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study
title_full Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study
title_fullStr Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study
title_full_unstemmed Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study
title_short Foreign body aspiration in a tertiary Syrian centre: A 7-year retrospective study
title_sort foreign body aspiration in a tertiary syrian centre: a 7-year retrospective study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33817384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06537
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