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Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia

Version 1 : Received: 24 May 2023 / Approved: 26 May 2023 / Online: 26 May 2023 (05:14:06 CEST)

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Leonte, I.; Ivanov, K.; Marghescu, A.Ș.; Matache, Ș.R.; Negru, F.V.; Iorga, A.L.; Dumitru, S.M.; Mahler, B. Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 2367. Leonte, I.; Ivanov, K.; Marghescu, A.Ș.; Matache, Ș.R.; Negru, F.V.; Iorga, A.L.; Dumitru, S.M.; Mahler, B. Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 2367.

Abstract

We present the case of a 35-year-old patient without pathological history who developed hemopneumothorax due to altitude barotrauma during a commercial airline flight. The computed tomography of the chest identified the presence of emphysema "blebs" and bubbles, and the histopathological examination of the lung fragment obtained during the diagnostic and therapeutic thoracoscopy identified elements suggestive for the diagnosis of respiratory bronchiolitis associated with desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP).

Keywords

hemopneumothorax; altitude barotrauma; emphysematous lesions; desquamative interstitial pneumonia

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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