Acute-onset Breathlessness: An Unexpected Etiology?

Acute-onset breathlessness has multifactorial causes where early spotting of etiology assists in prompt treatment of these cases. Other than usual causes, an often-neglected cause, especially in adults, is non-asphyxiating foreign body aspiration. Here, we describe a case of a 40-year-old male who h...

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Autores principales: Anbalagan, Lokhesh C, Muthu, Valliappan, Pannu, Ashok K, Saroch, Atul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8857712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712747
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24112
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author Anbalagan, Lokhesh C
Muthu, Valliappan
Pannu, Ashok K
Saroch, Atul
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description Acute-onset breathlessness has multifactorial causes where early spotting of etiology assists in prompt treatment of these cases. Other than usual causes, an often-neglected cause, especially in adults, is non-asphyxiating foreign body aspiration. Here, we describe a case of a 40-year-old male who had aspirated an organic foreign body under alcohol intoxication and presented with symptoms of acute-onset breathlessness and severe hypoxia. Prompt diagnosis and bronchoscopy-guided removal result in a quick recovery of symptoms in the index patient. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Anbalagan LC, Muthu V, Pannu AK, Saroch A. Acute-onset Breathlessness: An Unexpected Etiology? Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(2):231–234.
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spelling pubmed-88577122022-06-15 Acute-onset Breathlessness: An Unexpected Etiology? Anbalagan, Lokhesh C Muthu, Valliappan Pannu, Ashok K Saroch, Atul Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Acute-onset breathlessness has multifactorial causes where early spotting of etiology assists in prompt treatment of these cases. Other than usual causes, an often-neglected cause, especially in adults, is non-asphyxiating foreign body aspiration. Here, we describe a case of a 40-year-old male who had aspirated an organic foreign body under alcohol intoxication and presented with symptoms of acute-onset breathlessness and severe hypoxia. Prompt diagnosis and bronchoscopy-guided removal result in a quick recovery of symptoms in the index patient. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Anbalagan LC, Muthu V, Pannu AK, Saroch A. Acute-onset Breathlessness: An Unexpected Etiology? Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(2):231–234. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8857712/ /pubmed/35712747 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24112 Text en Copyright © 2022; The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2022 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24112
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