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Ugeskrift for laeger · Aug 2016
Case Reports[Acute dyspnoea triggered by spontaneous pneumothorax in a pregnant woman with pulmonary agenesis].
- Asthildur Arnadottir, Saddiq Mohammad Qazi, and Thomas Høi-Hansen.
- ast.arnadottir@gmail.com.
- Ugeskr. Laeg. 2016 Aug 22; 178 (34).
AbstractA 29-year-old pregnant woman was admitted to hospital with chest pain and dyspnoea. A thoracal computed tomography (CT) was performed to rule out pulmonary embolism, and it revealed a left-sided pneumothorax, which was treated with tube thoracostomy. Three days after discharge she was readmitted with spontaneous pressure pneumothorax. Her clinical condition did not improve, and a pulmonary scintigraphy and a new thoracal CT showed unilateral right pulmonary agenesis. Pulmonary agenesis is very rare in adulthood, and in this case it was complicated with spontaneous pneumothorax.
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