Multiple Bronchoalveolar Lavages in a Patient with Acute Progressive Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis: A case report.
10.4097/kjae.1999.36.3.547
- Author:
Mi Kyung YANG
1
;
Seung Jae KIM
;
Yu Hong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Anesthetic techniques, multiple lung lavages;
Lung, acute progressive pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- MeSH:
Biopsy;
Bronchoalveolar Lavage*;
Diagnosis;
Humans;
Hypertension;
Lung;
Pneumothorax;
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis*;
Radiography, Thoracic;
Superinfection;
Therapeutic Irrigation;
Tracheostomy
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
1999;36(3):547-552
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We had performed six times (4 in right lung, 2 in left lung) bronchoalveolar lavages in a patient who has hypertension and suffered cerebral vascular accident previously. The diagnosis of PAP was confirmed by an open lung biopsy and multiple bronchoalveolar lavages were done for two and a half months. Even though she showed slight improvement in chest radiographs, she showed minimal improvement in her clinical course until the third lavage was done. She had to receive tracheostomy and prolonged ventilatory care because her PAP was progressed rapidly and complicated with superinfection. In addition, she sustained pneumothorax as a complication of the prolonged ventilatory care and the lavages. She was discharged one month after the last lavage and her clinical course has been uneventful 10 months thereafter.
