Food for Thought: Dietary Intervention in a Rare Cause of Severe Ventilatory Failure

Food for Thought: Dietary Intervention in a Rare Cause of Severe Ventilatory Failure

Plastic bronchitis is a rare condition characterised by endobronchial cast formation. We report the case of a 53-year-old women who deteriorated following an elective bronchoscopy procedure. She developed refractory ventilatory failure and required repeated bronchoscopy, which identified thick tenac...

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Main Authors: Henry Yung, Keshav Sharma, William Flowers, Malcolm Marquette, Laura Starace, Clare Sander, Rowan Burnstein, Jurgen Herre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMC MEDIA SRL 2020-03-01
Series:European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Subjects:
plastic bronchitis
bronchial casts
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
asthma
mechanical ventilation
Online Access:https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/1523

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