• 사상체질의학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.140-144
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• 2001

Severe chronic coughing infrequently causes rib fractures and these fractures belong to Stress fracture and these rib fractures are given the term of "cough fractur". Cough fracture usually occurs in one rib and in the middle of the rib between the costochondral junction and the costal angle. The case is a report about a young woman with multiple rib fractures which were caused by severe coughing. The Chest PA and Rib series test were normal but Rib fractures were founded by Bone scan test. Treatment was Herb-medication, rest and restriction of work and symptoms were reduced.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.462-465
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• 2001

상기도 감염으로 인한 발작성 기침 후 복벽 혈종을 보인 1예를 보고하였다. 복벽 혈종은 수술을 요하는 급성 복증과 감별하여야하는 질환으로, 심한 기침 후 복동이 발생한 경우 반드시 복벽 혈종을 고려하여야하며, 필요한 경우 초음파 검사나 전산화단층촬영을 시행하여 불필요한 수술을 피해야한다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제65권3호
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• pp.212-215
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• 2008

본 증례는 와파린을 복용하던 72세 여자가 기침을 심하게 하던 중 하복부 통증과 압통을 보이는 복부 팽만이 발생하여 복부 전산화단층촬영을 통해 복직근초 혈종을 진단한 경우이다. 복직근초 혈종은 매우 드물지만 항응고제를 복용하는 고령 환자나 분만을 했거나 복부 수술을 받은 경우 등에서 발생할 수 있고, 드물게 기침에 의해서도 발생할 수 있다. 따라서 이런 환자에서 심한 복통이나 복부 종물이 관찰되는 경우 그 가능성을 한 번쯤 생각해보아야 하겠다. 전산화단층촬영은 복직근초 혈종 진단의 특이성과 민감도가 높아 진단에 도움이 되며 대부분은 보존적인 치료만으로 회복되므로 본 질환의 위험인자와 진단방법에 대해 숙지하고 정확한 진단을 하는 것이 무엇보다도 중요하겠다.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.349-355
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• 2023

A 7-year-old castrated male Pomeranian dog presented with severe goose honking cough and dyspnea. Thoracic radiographs revealed a narrowed tracheal diameter at the thoracic inlet, classified as tracheal collapse grade 4. Despite medical treatment, the dog's life-threatening airway obstruction did not improve. Subsequently, tracheal stent placement resulted in a significant improvement in respiratory condition, with no recurrence of symptoms observed during the 4-month period, except for coughing induced by excitement and anxiety. However, the patient presented with a one-week history of productive cough, exercise intolerance, and loss of appetite. Radiographs and computed tomography scans revealed torsion of the left cranial lung lobe. The patient underwent affected lung lobectomy, which involved the removal of the necrotized cranial portion and heavily congested caudal portion. Unfortunately, the patient did not recover and eventually passed away. Histopathological examination of the resected lung tissue confirmed coagulative necrosis and marked peribronchiolar edema, consistent with lung lobe torsion.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.9-12
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• 2014

Violent or severe persistent coughing is rarely associated with rib fracture. We report a rare case of a cough-induced rib fracture in a patient without any traumatic history or any other underlying disease. A 32-year-old female presented to the emergency department complaining of having had right-sided pleuritic chest pain for 5 days. She had a background of an 8-week coughing illness. A posteroanterior view of the chest radiograph showed no definite fractured line. Chest computed tomography revealed a subtle break cortical line of the 7th rib in the right-sided chest wall. Early identification of a cough-induced fracture of the rib by using computed tomography may avoid unnecessary further work-ups including laboratory examination and may lead to appropriate discharge instructions including rest and reassurance. The clinical presentations and radiologic findings of rib fractures caused by coughing are presented along with a review of the literature.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.253-259
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• 1978

A case of Vanishing lung of right entire lung field in a man of 36 years of age was encountered at Dept. of Chest Surgery of Chonnam University Hospital. His chief complaints were cough, severe dyspnea and chest pain for about 14 years. Right pneumonectomy was done and gross finding was multiple chambered cysts of the right lung with thin epithelium. The review of the literatures was also done.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.57-60
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• 1972

Esopkageal rupture is one of the rarest disease. Mackler described that esophageal rupture was differentiated from esophageal perforation, the perforation is produced by esophagoscopy, and continuous erosion, such as esophagitis,gastric reflux, hiatal hernia and malignant neoplasm of the esophagus, the rupture is occurred by severe vomiting, cough and strong positive pressure into the esophageal lumen. Since,at first Boerhaave reported the esophageal rupture due to severe vomiting in 1742, several case reports of esophageal rupture have been in the literatures. Authors reported a case of the esophageal rupture due to explosion of gasoline in 50 year old female. The rupture occurred a longitudinal rent on the left posterolateral aspect of lower one third of esophagus and accompanied wlth second degree burn on the entire face and neck. The treatment consists of immediate thoracotomy in order to drainage of pyothorax and gastrostomy for nutritional problem, but patient expired because of septicemia probably due to uncontrollable empyema of thorax on 45th admitted day.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.45.1-45.15
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• 2022

Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease characterized by reversible airway obstruction and airway hyperreactivity to various environmental stimuli, leading to recurrent cough, dyspnea, and wheezing episodes. Regarding inflammatory mechanisms, type 2/eosinophilic inflammation along with activated mast cells is the major one; however, diverse mechanisms, including structural cells-derived and non-type 2/neutrophilic inflammations are involved, presenting heterogenous phenotypes. Although most asthmatic patients could be properly controlled by the guided treatment, patients with severe asthma (SA; classified as a treatment-refractory group) suffer from uncontrolled symptoms with frequent asthma exacerbations even on regular anti-inflammatory medications, raising needs for additional controllers, including biologics that target specific molecules found in asthmatic airway, and achieving the precision medicine for asthma. This review summarizes the immunologic basis of airway inflammatory mechanisms and current biologics for SA in order to address unmet needs for future targets.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제77권4호
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• pp.184-187
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• 2014

Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare, recently classified entity that consists of pleural and subjacent parenchymal fibrosis predominantly in the upper lungs. In an official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement in 2013, this disease is introduced as a group of rare idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. We describe a case of a 76-year-old woman with cough and recurrent pneumothorax. She was admitted to our hospital with severe cough at first. High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) disclosed multifocal subpleural consolidations with reticular opacities in both lungs, primarily in the upper lobes, suggesting interstitial pneumonia. Rheumatoid lung was diagnosed initially through an elevated rheumatoid factor, HRCT and surgical biopsy at the right lower lobe. However, one month later, pneumothorax recurred. Surgical biopsy was performed at the right upper lobe at this time. The specimens revealed typical subpleural fibroelastosis. We report this as a first case of idiopathic PPFE in Korea after reviewing the symptoms, imaging and pathologic findings.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.188-192
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• 1998

A 3-month old female Holstein calf was presented with about a month history of intermittent dyspnea, exercise intolerance and cough despite antibiotic therapy. Auscultation revealed prominent inspiratory and exploratory crackles and wheezes over the causal cervical trachea which were heard equally over both side of the chest.4 modest amount of forced exercise caused severe respiratory distress with stertorous noise and occasional honkinglike cough. Pasteurella spp. was isolated on the nasal swabs and a hemogram showed mild leucocytosis with a mature neutrophilia and mild monocytosis. Lateral radiographs of the neck and thorax revealed a marked narrowing of the tracheal lumen extending from the level of the fifth cervical to the second thoracic vertebra, and the lung field was judged to be within normal limitsi except very mild peribronchial thickening. The hypertrophic non-union fractures of the first pair of ribs were noted with a well delineatedr redundant callus formations and also the completely healed fractures were found on the next seven pairs of ribs. A diagnosis of tracheal collapse was made, which is thought to be a traumatic origin.4 poor prognosis was given. The calf was euthanatized and necropsied. The tracheal rings from 19th to 41s1 were collapsed dorsoventrally. Histologically, there was no difference between the collapsed and normal areas of the tracheae except the folding mucosal layer in the collapsed area. This report details a case of tracheal collapse in a calli and the literature is reviewed.