Medical Must-See: Doctors finally wrap up foreign body aspiration case after 11 years
A moment on the lips, 11 years in the left main bronchus.
An inhaled lolly wrapper led to a decade-long cough in this rare case of foreign body aspiration involving a middle-aged woman.
The patient, a teacher in her 50s, presented to a Tanzanian hospital’s infectious diseases department with shortness of breath, chronic cough and “foul-smelling suppurative sputum”.
She was in visible distress, with a respiratory rate of 28 breaths per minute, inspiratory stridor and fine crepitations over her left chest, her doctors said.
She had already received several antibiotic courses, including anti-TB therapy, they wrote in Radiology Case Reports.
