Leonte I, Ivanov K, Marghescu AȘ, Matache ȘR, Negru FV, Iorga AL, Dumitru SM, Mahler B. Sequence of Rare Diagnoses in a Young Patient: Altitude Barotrauma Hemopneumothorax and Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia.
Diagnostics (Basel) 2023;
13:2367. [PMID:
37510111 PMCID:
PMC10378536 DOI:
10.3390/diagnostics13142367]
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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 (CT) of the chest identified the presence of right hydropneumothorax and emphysema "blebs" and bubbles. After the therapeutic insertion of a drain tube, the patient returned to the country by land transport. Three weeks later, he was diagnosed with right-sided pleurisy based on a CT scan with contrast material. A surgical intervention was then performed, and three biopsy samples were taken; the histopathological result highlighted suggestive elements for the diagnosis of desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP).
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