Iron pill inhalation represents a uncommon cause of syntomatic endobronchial foreign bodies. Unlike foreign body, the direct contact of iron tablet onto the bronchial mucosa results in severe bronchial damage in addition to obstruction and local irritation. Four patients with Iron Pill Inhalation Syndrome are described. All but one patient developed irreversible bronchial stenosis as late post ...

Bronchial Asthma is an airway disease with variable degrees of bronchial mucosal inflammation and intermittent episodes of airway obstruction and bronchial hyperesponsivness. That asthma is a syndrome consisting of different phenotypes has been recognized for a long time by clinicians [1]. New evidence indicates that the composition of airway microbiota differs in states of health and disease. ...

A case of respiratory failure in a domestic fire victim presenting with 1-3-degree skin burns on 10% of the total body surface, is reported. Forty-eight hours after admission to hospital, the patient developed severe respiratory failure that did not respond to mechanical ventilation. Severe obstruction of the airway had resulted from secretions and deposits of soot forming bronchial casts. The ...

A child suspected of exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction and asthma is examined by laryngoscopy and respiratory resistance (Rrs) after exercise challenge. Immediately at exercise cessation, the visualized adduction of the larynx in inspiration is reflected in a paroxystic increase in Rrs. While normal breathing has apparently resumed later on during recovery from exercise, the pattern of Rrs...

Aim Asthma is a chronic disease of the lower respiratory tract that is characterized by inflammation and bronchial obstruction. The pathophysiology of the disease is related to constriction of the bronchial smooth muscle, something that is influenced by calcium homeostasis. Important role in calcium homeostasis, play various binding proteins, which belongs to the family of proteins S100 (S100)....

In order to examine the hypothesis that bronchial reactivity to non-specific constrictor stimuli is influenced by the resting tone of the bronchial smooth muscle, the airway responses to inhaled histamine solution and inhaled isoprenaline were measured in 19 patients with airway obstruction. There was a significant positive correlation between the size of the constrictor response to histamine a...

Ten patients with endobronchial metastasis from primary breast cancer were found among 1200 fibreoptic bronchoscopies. Six of these patients had radiological signs suggesting bronchial obstruction. The diagnosis was verified in nine cases by means of bronchoscopic biopsy or cytology and in one by thoracotomy. Endobronchial metastasis should be considered when symptoms or chest films suggest end...

Background For many years it was considered that bronchial obstruction is caused by a bacterial or viral infection of the respiratory system and the pathogenesis is associated with the sensitization of a bronchial tree by pathogens or non-pathogenic entities which inhabit the respiratory passages. Symptomatic pulmonary disease characteristics are present in 65% of patients with visceral toxocar...

The effect of hard metal dust generated in shaping on ventilatory function has been studied, in particular, the relation between levels of exposure to cobalt and changes in ventilatory function. In 15 healthy young men a significant decrease in FVC occurred after a six hour exposure to hard metal dust containing cobalt at a mean concentration of 38 micrograms/m3 (range 14-76 micrograms/m3). No ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the use of antibiotics in Peruvian children under 1 year in a setting where they are available without a prescription. METHODS Data were analyzed from a cohort study between September 2006 and December 2007 of 1 023 children < 2 months old in periurban Lima, Peru, followed until they were 1 year old. RESULTS Seven hundred seventy of 1 023 (75.3%) children took 2 085 co...