Bronchial Asthma Complicated with Heart Disease and Heart Disease Complicated with Bronchial Asthma

Pulmonary Artery Agenesis with Bronchial Asthma

Unilateral Pulmonary Artery Agenesis (UPAA) is a rare congenital anomaly during the 4 th  week of gestational age. It is defined as an absence of pulmonary parenchyma and its supporting artery. A 9-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of chronic cough. Chest examination showed a decrement in lung sound of right hemi-thorax with expiratory wheeze. Chest radiography (CXR) revealed a...

A case of bronchial asthma complicated by epidural emphysema.

are caused by trauma or iatrogenic interventions, and to the best of our knowledge, only 17 cases associated with bronchial asthma have been reported in the literature up to February 2012. The mechanism by which this condition is considered to develop is the exfoliation of transudative air in the posterior mediastinum space due to high bronchoalveolar pressure, and the subsequent invasion of th...

Right heart pressures on bronchial asthma.

Bronchial asthma with "crossed splitting" of the second heart sound.

Sickle cell disease and bronchial asthma.

A six-year-old girl with sickle cell disease and severe asthma was treated for status asthmaticus on several occasions. Sickle cell crises appeared to be precipitated by the asthmatic episodes. The interactions between these two disease processes are discussed and a treatment protocol for the rare patient with both of these diseases is proposed.