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A Case of RUL Bronchopleural Fistula Occluded by Flexible Bronchoscope with Endobronchial Watanabe Spigot (EWS)

Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases / Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases,
2005, v.58 no.4, pp.404-409








& (2005). A Case of RUL Bronchopleural Fistula Occluded by Flexible Bronchoscope with Endobronchial Watanabe Spigot (EWS). Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases, 58(4), 404-409.
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Abstract

An 86 year old woman was admitted complaining of dyspnea and right pleuritic pain with a 5 week durations. A physical examination, chest X-ray, and diagnostic thoracentesis upon admission revealed findings consistent with severe pneumonia and empyema on the right lung. Despite the insertion of a chest tube and negative suction via Emersion pump, the continuous air leakage was sustained, and a bronchopleural fistula (BPF) was found on the chest-CT. A flexible bronchoscopic occlusion with an Endobronchial Watanabe Spigot (EWS) was performed after 56 days of admission. An 5 mm diameter EWS was successfully inserted into the anterior segmental bronchus of the right upper lobe by flexible bronchoscope. There was no aAir leakage detected after this procedure. The patient was discharged 30 days after the EWS occlusion. (Tuberc Respir Dis 2005; 58: 404-409)

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Bronchopleural fistula, Flexible bronchoscope, EWS.

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