Lobectomy for Bronchiectasis

A Case of Lobectomy for Bronchiectasis

I HE patient was a manl of twenty-three years of age, a poultry assistant by occupation, and he was first admitted to the Forster Green Hospital in 1931. At that time he had a history of cough, a small amount of sputum and repeated hkemoptysis, the largest hwemorrhage being about a pint. Tubercle bacilli were not present in the sputum, and there was no evidence suggestive of tuberculosis on any...

Left pneumonectomy and middle lobectomy for bronchiectasis.

Left middle lobectomy for bronchiectasis in a patient with Kartagener syndrome: a case report

BACKGROUND Kartagener syndrome (KS) is a rare disorder characterized by the triad of chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, and situs inversus. CASE PRESENTATION A 23-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of recurrent cough with purulent expectoration, which had occurred intermittently for the past ten years. During the past 3 years, the episode frequency was 3-4 times per year. He wa...

The bronchiectasis severity index and FACED score for bronchiectasis.

Bronchiectasis is a chronic airway disease which is associated with cough, sputum production, haemoptysis and/or other distressing symptoms, resulting from various aetiologies [1–4]. The vicious cycle, which consists of airway infection, airway inflammation and structural damage, predominates in the pathogenesis and progression of bronchiectasis [5]. Despite the disappointingly limited number o...

Nebulisers for bronchiectasis.