Bullous Lung Disease due to Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Rare Case Complicated With Tension Pneumothorax and Bronchopleural Fistula

Morán-Mariños C.; Vidal-Ruiz M.; Llanos-Tejada F.; Chavez-Huamani A.; Salas-Lopez J.; Villanueva-Villegas R.; Casanova-Mendoza R. · Therapeutic Advances in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (2024) · DOI: 10.1177/29768675241249652

Resumen

Bullous lung disease caused by tuberculosis is rare, and complications have a poor prognosis with uncertain pathophysiologic mechanisms. We describe a 29-year-old male patient who was admitted to the emergency department due to bilateral tension pneumothorax, which was complicated by bronchopleural fistula. This was managed with the placement of chest tubes, continuity of anti-TB drug treatment, and Heimlich valve placement. © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

Instituciones: Universidad Científica del Sur; Universidad Ricardo Palma; Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola; Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista