Volume 24, Issue 104, July - August, 2020

Lung aplasia: A rare entity presenting in adulthood

Aishwarya Dubey¹, Babaji Ghewade^2♦, Ajay Lanjewar³, Diti Gandhasiri⁴

¹Junior resident, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences deemed to be university, Sawangi, Wardha ²Professor and Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences deemed to be university, Sawangi, Wardha ³Associate Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences deemed to be university, Sawangi, Wardha ⁴Junior resident, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences deemed to be university, Sawangi, Wardha, India

^♦Corresponding author
Professor and Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences deemed to be university, Sawangi, Wardha; India

ABSTRACT

Pulmonary aplasia is a rare bronchopulmonary foregut anomaly characterized by the presence of a rudimentary main bronchus in the absence of lung and ipsilateral pulmonary artery. From 1762 there have been only 200 documented cases of lung aplasia which is very less as compared to lung agenesis. This disorder is usually diagnosed in the infancy or early childhood but may be delayed until adulthood in asymptomatic individuals or individuals without any associated comorbid anomalies. Here we report a case of a 28-year-old male who presented to us with mild respiratory distress and dry cough with a left radiopaque hemithorax in which the diagnosis of pulmonary aplasia was completed with bronchoscopy and computed tomography scan of thorax.

Keywords: lung aplasia, bronchopulmonary foregut anomaly, radiopaque hemithorax

Medical Science, 2020, 24(104), 1822-1827

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