Abstract

CARDOZO, ALEJANDRO; GARCES, MARÍA VIRGINIA  and  ECHAVARRIA, ALEJANDRO. Aspiration pneumonia due foreign body in a cocaine user - HIV positive patient. A case report. CES Med. [online]. 2012, vol.26, n.2, pp.237-241. ISSN 0120-8705.

ABSTRACT Effects of cocaine use are well known in different body organs, for example kidney infartions, hypertension complications, coronary syndromes, the crack lung, electrolyte disorders and others. Not much is known about the relationship between bronchial foreign body aspiration or obstructive pneumonia in immunosuppressed patients. In this paper we describe the case of an aids patient presented with a non-resolved pneumonia despite treatment antibiotic and whose etiology was due an unusual bronchial foreign body. Which removed led to clinical improvement of the patient

Keywords : Aspiration pneumonia; Recurrente pneumonia; Foreign body; Fiber optic bronchoscopy; Cocaine; Case report.

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