Severe Hemoptysis Requiring Lobectomy in an 11-Year-Old Patient With Kartagener’s Syndrome

• Published in: The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 852 - 854
• Main Authors: Schwarzenberg, Helmut, Elfeldt, Ronald J, Schlüter, Erich, Link, Johann, Heller, Martin
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01-09-1997; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Angiography, Digital Subtraction; Biological and medical sciences; Bronchi - blood supply; Bronchiectasis - pathology; Bronchitis - pathology; Bronchoscopy; Child; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Hemoptysis - etiology; Hemoptysis - surgery; Humans; Kartagener Syndrome - complications; Kartagener Syndrome - diagnostic imaging; Kartagener Syndrome - pathology; Kartagener Syndrome - surgery; Medical sciences; Pneumology; Pneumonectomy; Pulmonary Fibrosis - pathology; Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Human; Respiratory disease; Immotile cilia syndrome; Situs inversus; Case study; Hemoptysis; Treatment; Malformation; Surgery; ENT disease; Complication; Child; Lobectomy
• ISSN: 0003-4975; 1552-6259
• DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00689-9

The case of a young girl with severe hemoptysis in a Kartagener’s syndrome is described. Because bronchoscopy failed to locate the origin of the bleeding, preoperative angiography was performed. The patient was treated by resection of the middle lobe. The bronchus wall was located as the origin of bleeding.