Add-on treatment with nebulized hypertonic saline in a child with plastic bronchitis after the Glenn procedure

Plastic bronchitis (PB), although a rare cause of airway obstruction, has mortality rates up to 50% in children after Fontan-type cardiac surgery. We present the case of an 18-month-old female patient with PB following pneumonia. At 6 months of age, the patient underwent the Glenn procedure due to f...

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Main Authors: Grzegorz Lis, Ewa Cichocka-Jarosz, Urszula Jedynak-Wasowicz, Edyta Glowacka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia 2014-01-01
Series:Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132014000100082&lng=en&tlng=en