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Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma
Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a rare and potentially fatal disease characterized by acute progressive dyspnea caused by bronchial casts in the bronchial tree. We analyzed two children with asthma and PB who presented with high fever, cough and dyspnea. Both cases showed acute onset and rapid disease pr...
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description | Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a rare and potentially fatal disease characterized by acute progressive dyspnea caused by bronchial casts in the bronchial tree. We analyzed two children with asthma and PB who presented with high fever, cough and dyspnea. Both cases showed acute onset and rapid disease progression. Laboratory examination revealed that both children were infected with influenza A virus. Emergency fiberoptic bronchoscopy was performed within 20 hours of admission. Immediately after removing the bronchial casts, their dyspnea symptoms improved significantly, and they recovered after comprehensive treatment with antiviral drugs, antibiotics and glucocorticoids. When children with asthma have acute progressive and difficult-to-relieve dyspnea after infection with influenza A virus, clinicians should be aware of the possibility of PB and perform bronchoscopy as soon as possible to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment and improve patient prognosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-87217302022-01-04 Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma Wang, Yanyan An, Shuhua J Int Med Res Case Reports Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a rare and potentially fatal disease characterized by acute progressive dyspnea caused by bronchial casts in the bronchial tree. We analyzed two children with asthma and PB who presented with high fever, cough and dyspnea. Both cases showed acute onset and rapid disease progression. Laboratory examination revealed that both children were infected with influenza A virus. Emergency fiberoptic bronchoscopy was performed within 20 hours of admission. Immediately after removing the bronchial casts, their dyspnea symptoms improved significantly, and they recovered after comprehensive treatment with antiviral drugs, antibiotics and glucocorticoids. When children with asthma have acute progressive and difficult-to-relieve dyspnea after infection with influenza A virus, clinicians should be aware of the possibility of PB and perform bronchoscopy as soon as possible to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment and improve patient prognosis. SAGE Publications 2021-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8721730/ /pubmed/34939439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605211065370 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Wang, Yanyan An, Shuhua Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma |
title | Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma |
title_full | Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma |
title_fullStr | Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma |
title_full_unstemmed | Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma |
title_short | Plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A virus in children with asthma |
title_sort | plastic bronchitis associated with influenza a virus in children with asthma |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721730/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34939439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605211065370 |
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