Congenital Tracheal Stenosis with Unilateral Pulmonary Agenesis
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Pneumonectomy for congenital isolated unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis.
Unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis (UPAA) is a rare congenital anomaly usually diagnosed in infancy due to associated cardiovascular malformations. We report a rare case of isolated right UPAA that presented atypically in adulthood with massive haemoptysis requiring a pneumonectomy. This case highlights the importance of maintaining a high clinical suspicion, the role of CT angiography and a ...
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Hitherto descriptions of some 200 cases of this condition have been published. In the majority of these reports a single case has been presented in detail together with the investigations showing how the diagnosis was made. Some authors have recorded a small series of cases, and in an effort to increase the number there has often tended to be indiscriminate use of the term agenesis. As a result...
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I read with great interest the article by Malcon et al. reporting the occurrence of unilateral pulmonary agenesis in an 8-year-old asymptomatic male child without other associated malformations, and I congratulate the authors on it. I would like to report that we treated a 3-month-old female infant, from the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, who had been born at term and had undergone prenatal te...
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Pulmonary agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly. We report the case of an 8-year-old boy with left lung agenesis, without any other congenital malformations. When the patient presented symptoms, including cough, wheezing, and dyspnea, with no clinical improvement after a period of 30 days, imaging studies were conducted and the diagnosis was made.
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http://ccn.aacnjournals.org Lorri M. Phipps is a pediatric nurse practitioner and Jill A. Raymond is a clinical staff nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit, Departments of Pediatrics and Nursing, Division of Critical Care, at Penn State Children’s Hospital, Hershey, Pa. Tammy M. Angeletti is a pediatric respiratory specialist in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Therapy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199101000-00012