title: Congenital lobar emphysema: pitfalls and management.
abstract: Congenital lobar emphysema is a rare entity presenting in the first month of life. It appears with varying degrees of respiratory distress, clinical and radiological evidence of over-aeration of the upper and middle lobes, mediastinal shift and hypoxia. Its early recognition and surgical intervention can be life-saving. Even today, despite advanced diagnostic techniques, pitfalls in diagnosis and management are not uncommon and the condition may be mistaken for pneumothorax or pneumonia. This report elucidates the anesthetic management of three such cases with a review of literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, G. B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India. tempedeepak@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Deepak K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Tempe
authors.forename: Sanjula
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Virmani
authors.forename: Swati
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Javetkar
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: Sunil Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Puri
authors.forename: Vishnu
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Datt
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011656:Pulmonary Emphysema / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*