scholarly journals Plastic Bronchitis in an AIDS Patient with Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Sheila A. Habib ◽  
Robert C. Vasko ◽  
Jack Badawy ◽  
Gregory M. Anstead

Plastic bronchitis is the expectoration of bronchial casts in the mold of the tracheobronchial tree. It is a rare occurrence of unknown etiology that has been primarily described in children with congenital heart disease. In this case report, we present the first reported case of plastic bronchitis in a patient with pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma and underlying HIV infection.

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kunder ◽  
Christian Kunder ◽  
Heather Y. Sun ◽  
Gerald Berry ◽  
Anna Messner ◽  
...  

Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a pathologic condition in which airway casts develop in the tracheobronchial tree causing airway obstruction. There is no standard treatment strategy for this uncommon condition. We report an index patient treated using an emerging multimodal strategy of directly instilled and inhaled tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) as well as 13 other cases of PB at our institution between 2000 and 2012. The majority of cases (n=8) occurred in patients with congenital heart disease. Clinical presentations, treatments used, histopathology of the casts, and patient outcomes are reviewed. Further discussion is focused on the epidemiology of plastic bronchitis and a systematic approach to the histologic classification of casts. Comorbid conditions identified in this study included congenital heart disease (8), pneumonia (3), and asthma (2). Our institutional prevalence rate was 6.8 per 100,000 patients, and our case fatality rate was 7%.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Begona Sanchez-Lechuga ◽  
Muhammad Saqlain ◽  
Nicholas Ng ◽  
Kevin Colclough ◽  
Conor Woods ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-367
Author(s):  
Abid Iqbal ◽  
Sabarinath Menon ◽  
Baiju S. Dharan ◽  
Kapilamoorthy Tirur Raman ◽  
Jayakumar Karunakaran

Submitral aneurysms are rare clinical entities occurring predominantly in young adults of African descent. A host of etiologies have been proposed for this entity. We present a unique case of submitral aneurysm which developed after pulmonary artery banding in a three-year-old girl with complex congenital heart disease. The aneurysmal sac was burrowing into the interatrial septum.


1983 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman T. Berlinger ◽  
John Foker ◽  
Charles Long ◽  
Russell V. Lucas

Children with acyanotic congenital heart disease frequently develop respiratory difficulties such as atelectasis, pneumonia, or infantile lobar emphysema. In some cases, the cause of the respiratory difficulty is compression of the tracheobronchial tree by hypertensive dilated pulmonary arteries, since this type of heart disease frequently demonstrates large left-to-right intracardiac shunts. Sites of predilection for compression include the left main bronchus, the left upper lobe bronchus, the junction of the right bronchus intermedius and right middle lobe bronchus, and the left side of the distal trachea. Cardiac anomalies which predispose to this type of compression include ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, interruption of the aortic arch, and tetralogy of Fallot. Pulmonary arteriopexy may relieve the tracheobronchial compression.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-121
Author(s):  
ROBERT W. WINTERS ◽  
SAUL J. ROBINSON ◽  
GEORGE BATES

A case of multiple hemangiomata of the liver is reported in an infant who presented signs and symptoms strongly suggesting congenital heart disease. The post mortem examination revealed no gross anomalies of the heart or great vessels, but did show a heart with cardiac hypertrophy. A mechanism to explain the cardiac failure in this case is discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ahmad ◽  
Edward A. El-Am ◽  
Reto D. Kurmann ◽  
Donald J. Hagler ◽  
Melanie C. Bois ◽  
...  

Introduction: Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas (PFEs) are the most common primary benign cardiac tumors, although they are somewhat unusual in children and typically seen on the left-sided cardiac valves.Case summary: A 10-week-old patient was found to have a partial atrioventricular canal defect, with associated tricuspid and mitral regurgitation. He was medically managed until 1 year of age, when surgical correction was done. During the procedure, a PFE was found incidentally on the TV.Conclusion: This is one of the youngest patients to be reported with PFE, thus adding to the literature of these unusual cases in children.


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