Qatar - Al Ahli Hospital treats patient with rare respiratory condition
Date
12/15/2021 2:28:35 AM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
Doha: Al-Ahli hospital has treated a case with pneumomediastinum, rare condition that affects the respiratory system.
Pneumomediastinum is an unusual condition of abnormal leakage of air or gases into the chest area. It is a rare case in which air leaks from both lungs into the intestines or chest cavity.
Pulmonary Consultant at Al-Ahli Hospital, Dr. Mohamad El Nazer said:“This type of disease is rarely occurred and affects some people suddenly without having sufficient awareness of the features of this disease.”
Pneumomediastinum may occur as a result of body trauma and affects persons often in the winter, where the patient feels severe pain in the middle of the chest, difficulty in breathing, change in the voice and swelling in the lung under the skin, which affects specially the face, neck and chest.
Dr. El Nazer added:“It is important to raise awareness among people of the symptoms of this disease, because if it is not diagnosed quickly as required, it may lead to complications due to the air pressure around the heart, which causes weakness in the functions of the heart muscles in pumping blood to the arteries.”
“The best diagnosis to make sure that the patient has a pneumomediastinum case is to conduct chest X-ray or CT,” he said.
Dr. El Nazer explained that the case of a 16-year-old child who arrived at Al-Ahli emergency department, suffering from sudden severe pain in the chest while moving his head to the right side during sitting without going through any trauma or injury, as the pain began to increase and move to the middle of the chest, which led to difficulty in swallowing and heart rate disturbances.
Al Nazer said:“After doing all the necessary tests, and a CT scan, it was found that the child had a pneumomediastinum case, as he was treated with high-flow oxygen, which is the effective treatment for this disease, because inhaling high-flow oxygen increases the absorption of air in the cavity until treatment is completed.”
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