Congenital Bronchoesophageal Fistula Causing Only Chronic Cough: One case.
10.4046/trd.1996.43.5.812
- Author:
Myung Sun JOO
1
;
Seung Min KWAK
;
Chul Ho JO
;
Yong Woon SHIN
;
Sae Whan KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Congenital;
bronchoesophageal fistula;
chronic coughing
- MeSH:
Asthma;
Bronchiectasis;
Cough*;
Deglutition;
Eating;
Female;
Fistula*;
Humans;
Inflammation;
Lung Diseases;
Middle Aged;
Nasal Polyps;
Pneumonia;
Thorax;
Tuberculosis
- From:Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
1996;43(5):812-817
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
There were so many causes of chronic coughing including postnasal drip, pneumonia, nasal polyp, asthma, interstinal lung disease etc. Congenital bronchoesophageal fistula was not usually thought as cause of chronic coughing. A 46-year-old female patient suffered from chronic coughing without usual causes. Her chest X-ray viewed normally. She coughed especially after swallowing foods. So we recommended her esophagogram and it revealed broncho-esphageal fistula. She underwent surgical resection of broncho-esophageal fistula. She was well without cough after the surgery. We reported a case of congenital broncho-esphageal fistula that had caused chronic coughing without any evidence of pneumonia, malignancy, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, inflammation, asthma, nasal polyp, etc. So we should suspect the bronchoesophageal fistula when patients cough chronically with eating, and recommend the esophagogram.
