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Clinical Features of Tracheobronchial Foreign Bodies in Adults according to the Risk of Aspiration  

Kim, Yee Hyung (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, East-West Neo Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine)
Choi, Cheon Woong (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, East-West Neo Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine)
Choi, Hye Sook (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dongguk University College of Medicine)
Park, Myung Jae (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kyung Hee Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine)
Kang, Hong Mo (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kyung Hee Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine)
Yoo, Jee-Hong (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, East-West Neo Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine)
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases / v.64, no.5, 2008 , pp. 356-361 More about this Journal
Abstract
Background: We wanted to examine the clinical characteristics of adult patients with tracheobronchial foreign bodies (FBs) according to the risk of aspiration and the outcomes of intervention with using a fiberoptic bronchoscope. Methods: From December 1994 through December 2004 at Kyung Hee Medical Center, we retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 29 adult patients with FBs that were identified by using a fiberoptic bronchoscope. Results: 14 patients were not at risk of aspiration, whereas 15 had cerebrovascular diseases and they were at a high risk of aspiration. No history suggestive of FB aspiration was noted in 7 (24.1%) patients. Respiratory symptom(s) were noted in 22 patients, and these symptoms were cough (62.0%), dyspnea (44.8%), fever (20.7%), wheezing (13.8%), chest pain (10.3%) and hemoptysis (0.4%). Only 60% of those patients at a high risk of aspiration had symptom(s) (92.8% of those patients without a risk of aspiration had symptoms, p=0.005). Those patients at risk for aspiration had a longer duration of symptoms (median: 4 days vs. 2 days for those patients not at risk for aspiration, p=0.007) before diagnosis. Acute respiratory symptom(s) within 3 days after aspiration were more frequent in the patients without a risk of aspiration (9 vs. 4, respectively p=0.048). Chest x-ray revealed radiological abnormalities in 23 patients, and these were opacities suspicious of FB (n=11), pneumonia (n=8), air trapping (n=5) and atelectasis (n=3). There were no differences in radiological findings according to the risk of aspiration. FB aspiration developed most commonly during medical procedures (57.1% for the patients at risk) and during eating (35.7% for the patients without risk). The most common FB materials were teeth (n = 11). Alligator jaw biopsy forceps (n = 23) was the most commonly used equipment. All of the FBs were removed without significant complications. Conclusion: This study underlines that a tracheobronchial FB in the patients who are at a high risk of aspiration are more likely to overlooked because of the more gradual onset of symptoms and the symptoms develop iatrogenically in many cases.
Keywords
Foreign body; Aspiration; Flexible bronchoscope;
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