Plastic bronchitis is an uncommon disorder characterized by the formation of bronchial casts. It is associated with congenital heart disease or pulmonary disease. In children with underlying conditions such as allergy or asthma, influenza can cause severe plastic bronchitis resulting in respiratory failure. A review of the literature showed nine cases of plastic bronchitis with H1N1 including t...

Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis (CNPA) is an unusual form of pulmonary aspergillosis arising in the setting of mildly immune compromised state or altered local defense system. CNPA rarely shows histological findings mimicking bronchocentric granulomatosis (BCG), which is characterized by peribronchiolar granulomatous destruction. We describe a case representing CNPA with elements of...

An account is given of two separate outbreaks of diphtheria amongst mentally subnormal patients and nursing staff. In a total hospital population of about 1000 the number of people involved as carriers or cases was 60 and there were five deaths. The 60 people comprised 56 patients, of whom four were involved in both outbreaks, and four nurses. The organisms isolated were C. diphtheriae mitis bu...

Plastic bronchitis is a rare disorder, characterized by formation of thick fibrinous bronchial casts which can obstruct the airway and present as a life threatening emergency (1). It is more common in the pediatric population after corrective or palliative surgery for congenital heart disease like fontan procedure but has rarely been reported in adults as well (1). Pregnancy is a relative contr...

Plastic bronchitis is used to designate endobronchial plugs of rubber-like consistency that form into bronchial trees. It has been described in several diseases like asthma, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary infection, cyanotic congenital heart disease and in few young children with homozygous sickle cell disease. We report the first sickle cell adult case of plastic bronchitis during acute chest synd...

introduction: to assess the efficacy and safety of bronchial artery embolization in the treatment of massive hemoptysis.   materials and methods: a retrospective study on 46 patients (26 males and 20 females) who were referred to the razavi hospital from april 2009 to may 2012 with massive hemoptysis and had bronchial artery embolization procedures. general characteristics of the patients inclu...

Simultaneous morphometric studies of parenchymal loss and of internal diameters of membranous bronchioles' were carried out at autopsy in 42 cases of chronic nonspecific lung disease. In a few cases, a bronchial cast of the right lung was made according to the slightly modified Tompsett's method with the use of resin. The quantitative data were assessed in four anatomic groups: panlobular emphy...

airway remodelling is characterized by the thickening and reorganization of the airways seen in mustard  lung patients. mustard lung is the  general description  for  the  chronic obstructive  pulmonary  disease induced  by  sulfur  mustard(sm). pulmonary  disease was diagnosed as the most important  disorder in individuals that had been exposed to sulfur mustard. sulfur mustard is a chemical w...

background: coverage of the bronchial stumps (bss) with adjacent tissues can improve healing and reduce bronchial complications in complex thoracic surgery. there is no evidence for the application of human amnion allograft for prevention of air leak from the bs. the comparison of the amniotic membrane (am) and pleural patch for bs healing after lobectomy in dogs was our aim in this study. mate...