Hemoptysis in a Teenager with Congenital Heart Disease
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Nisreen Rumman • Stuart Berger • Aparna Rao
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Expectoration of foreign objects has been reported mainly in adults. Expectorated objects have included staples after lung volume reduction surgery (metalloptysis) [8], gallstones after laparoscopic cholecystectomy [12], masses of tumor tissue or polyps [11], and bullets [10] migrating through lung parenchyma and eventually expectorated. There is little information about expectoration of foreign materials in children. We report a case of migration and erosion of prosthetic Gore-Tex graft into the bronchial tree through a pneumonectomy stump in a teenager who had undergone serial palliative surgeries for congenital heart disease. The foreign body was spontaneously expectorated.
Pediatr Cardiol (2011) 32:105–107 DOI 10.1007/s00246-010-9824-4 Received: 6 August 2010 / Accepted: 29 September 2010 / Published online: 24 October 2010
