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Gipsman AI, Feld L, Johnson B, Needleman JP, Boas H, Lin N, DePasquale B, Pogoriler J, McDowell KM, Piccione JC. Eosinophilic plastic bronchitis: Case series and review of the literature. Pediatr Pulmonol 2023; 58:3023-3031. [PMID: 37606213 PMCID: PMC10928548 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.26650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
Abstract
Plastic bronchitis is a term used to describe group of life-threatening disorders characterized by the presence of large obstructing casts in the airways. Eosinophilic plastic bronchitis is a subtype of plastic bronchitis that occurs mainly in children and has not been well-described in the literature. Patients may have a history of asthma or atopy, but many do not. They often present with cough and wheezing, and frequently have complete collapse of one lung seen on imaging. The severity of presentation varies depending on the location of the casts, ranging from mild symptoms to severe airway obstruction and death. Bronchoscopy is often required to both diagnose and treat this condition. A variety of medical therapies have been used, although no formal studies have evaluated their efficacy. Symptoms may resolve after initial cast removal, but in some patients, cast formation recurs. Here, we report a case series of nine patients with eosinophilic plastic bronchitis and review the existing literature of this condition.
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- Alexander I. Gipsman
- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Tsukahara K, Scully T, McDonough J, Boas H, DeMauro SB, Ren CL, Allen J. Reactance inversion in a cohort of former preterms: Physiology or artifact? Pediatr Pulmonol 2023; 58:2681-2684. [PMID: 37341587 PMCID: PMC10529034 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.26553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Revised: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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- Katharine Tsukahara
- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Biostatistics and Data Management Core, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Boas H, Mor E, Michowitz R, Rozen-Zvi B, Rahamimov R. The impact of the israeli transplantation law on the socio-demographic profile of living kidney donors. Am J Transplant 2015; 15:1076-80. [PMID: 25737018 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2014] [Revised: 10/26/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The Israeli transplantation law of 2008 stipulated that organ trading is a criminal offense, and banned the reimbursement of such transplants by insurance companies, thus decreasing dramatically transplant tourism from Israel. We evaluated the law's impact on the number and the socio-demographic features of 575 consecutive living donors, transplanted in the largest Israeli transplantation center, spanning 5 years prior to 5 years after the law's implementation. Living kidney donations increased from 3.5 ± 1.5 donations per month in the pre-law period to 6.1 ± 2.4 per month post-law (p < 0.001). This was mainly due to a rise in intra-familial donations from 2.1 ± 1.1 per month to 4.6 ± 2.1 per month (p < 0.001). In unrelated donors we found a significant change in their socio-demographic characteristics: mean age increased from 35.4 ± 7.4 to 39.9 ± 10.2 (p = 0.001), an increase in the proportion of donors with college level or higher education (31.0% to 63.1%; p < 0.001) and donors with white collar occupations (33.3% to 48.3%, p = 0.023). In conclusion, the Israeli legislation that prohibited transplant tourism and organ trading in accordance with Istanbul Declaration, was associated with an increase in local transplantation activity, mainly from related living kidney donors, and a change in the profile of unrelated donors into an older, higher educated, white collar population.
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- H Boas
- Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Boas H, Mor E, Michowitz R, Rozen-Zvi B, Rahamimov R. The Impact of the Israeli Transplantation Law on the Socio-Demographic Profile of Living Kidney Donors. Am J Transplant 2015; 15:1076-1080. [DOI: https:/doi.org/10.1111/ajt.13090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2023]
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Thomsen O, Boas H. VIII. Über den Wert der Anwendung von größeren Mengen Patientserum bei der Wassermannschen Reaktion. Dermatology 2009. [DOI: 10.1159/000247824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Boas H, Nayberg T, Pilh B. [140 years of trench warfare are over]. Tandlaegebladet 1976; 80:567-71. [PMID: 1078145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Boas H. Astronomische Mitteilungen. Naturwissenschaften 1932. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01503688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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