Aspiration pneumonia associated with achalasia

In this case, a chest computed tomography scan of a young patient with pneumonia revealed esophageal obstruction, which led to the diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia due to achalasia. This report highlights achalasia and other gastrointestinal obstructions as one of the causes of aspiration pneumonia...

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Autores principales: Ono, Yuri, Kobayashi, Hiroyuki, Nagasaki, Kazuya, Ariga, Hiroyuki, Kashimura, Junya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
Materias:
Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35509346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.524
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Sumario:In this case, a chest computed tomography scan of a young patient with pneumonia revealed esophageal obstruction, which led to the diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia due to achalasia. This report highlights achalasia and other gastrointestinal obstructions as one of the causes of aspiration pneumonia.[Image: see text]

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