Barras, Matthieu and Uhlmann, Marc (2017) Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum and Bilateral Pneumothoraces in a Patient with Bleomycin-Induced Pneumonitis. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 4 (10). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Bleomycin lung toxicity is well established and can manifest as bleomycin-induced pneumonitis, but pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax are very rare complications. We report the case of a 73-year-old woman, recently treated with bleomycin for Hodgkin’s disease, who was admitted for bleomycin-induced pneumonitis. Two weeks later she had a pneumomediastinum with extensive subcutaneous emphysema and small bilateral pneumothoraces. Three months after that she was readmitted for dyspnoea. The CT scan showed complete regression of the pneumomediastinum but extensive bilateral ground-glass infiltrates. The patient died from respiratory failure 2 weeks later.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bleomycin-induced pneumonitis, pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2018 09:20 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2018 09:20 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/17014 |
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