Plastic Bronchitis in a Five-Year-Old Boy Treated Using Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; a Case Report

Tsuyoshi Nojima; Hiromichi Naito; Takafumi Obara; Kohei Tsukahara; Atsunori Nakao

doi:10.22037/aaem.v9i1.1014

Plastic Bronchitis in a Five-Year-Old Boy Treated Using Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; a Case Report

Tsuyoshi Nojima, Hiromichi Naito, Takafumi Obara, Kohei Tsukahara, Atsunori Nakao

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Abstract

Plastic bronchitis is an uncommon disorder marked by the production of bronchial casts and acute respiratory failure development. In pediatric cases, influenza infection sometimes results in the obstruction of bronchi and leads to this potentially life-threatening condition. We report the case of a five-year-old boy with plastic bronchitis related to influenza A infection, which could only be recovered by the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO could effectively provide sufficient oxygenation for patients suffering from severe reversible acute respiratory failure. If patients infected with the influenza virus present acute respiratory distress with total lung atelectasis, clinicians should consider the diagnosis of plastic bronchitis and the subsequent treatment interventions with ECMO in a severe cases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v9i1.1014
Publication status	Published - Nov 2020

Keywords

Bronchitis
Influenza A virus
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
respiratory distress syndrome

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Emergency Medicine

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