title: Congenital lobar emphysema. A rare cause of hypertension.
abstract: Congenital lobar emphysema is a rare disease, which is characterized by pulmoner hyperinflation. Depending on the degree of bronchial obstruction, the clinical presentation may be variable. We report a rare case with congenital lobar emphysema in a 38-days-old male infant who presented with severe respiratory distress and hypertension. Air trapping in the left upper lung and significant mediastinal shift to the right were observed on the chest x-ray. Emphysematous changes were detected on the thorax computed tomography and considered as congenital lobar emphysema. The upper left lobectomy was successfully performed by pediatric surgeons. On postoperative follow up, no sign of respiratory distress occured and the patient was normotensive. In this report, a case with congenital lobar emphysema, which is a rare cause of respiratory distress and hypertension is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail. tugceturalkara@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tuğçe
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tural-Kara
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Özdemir
authors.forename: Ergin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Çiftçi
authors.forename: Erdal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: İnce
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011656:Pulmonary Emphysema / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed