Emergency Medicine: Open Access

Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Medical Image - (2015) Volume 5, Issue 3

Bronchoscopic Finding of Bronchiectasis

Chien-Ming Chao1,2 and Wei-Ting Lin3,4*
1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan
2Department of Nursing, Min-Hwei College of Health Care Management, Tainan, Taiwan
3Department of Orthopaedics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
4Department of Physical Therapy, Shu Zen College of Medicine and Management, Taiwan
*Corresponding Author: Wei-Ting Lin, Department of Orthopaedics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan Email:

Description

A 56-year-old man presented with a 2-day history of fever and shortness of breath. He had a history of buccal cancer and received tracheostomy for maintenance of airway. Physical examination disclosed diffuse coarse crackles, especially over the left lower lung field.

Thick tenacious sputum was noted, and bronchoscopic examination performed for bronchial hygiene showed severe dilatation of left B7 (Figure 1A, arrow) and right B8 bronchus with copious purulent secretions. Chest computed tomography revealed dilatation of airways over bilateral lower lobes (Figure 1B, arrow) and confirmed a diagnosis of bronchiectasis. The patient was treated with antibiotics and chest physiotherapy, and made a good recovery.

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Figure 1: A) Bronchoscopic examination and B) Chest computed tomography of bronchial hygiene.

Citation: Wei-Ting Lin (2015) Bronchoscopic Finding of Bronchiectasis.Chao and Lin, Emerg Med (Los Angel) 5: i108.

Copyright: © 2015 Lin WT, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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