Pulmonary Sequestration Presenting as Treatment-Resistant Community Acquired Pneumonia

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Oyinem Odumah Jose Isaac Reyes Jesam Usani Jaime Yun Tareq AlQasas

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Oyinem Odumah
Department of Surgery, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA

A B S T R A C T

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation whereby abnormal lung tissue forms that do not communicate with the tracheobronchial tree. Pulmonary sequestration receives its blood supply via single or multiple vessels, typically arising from the systemic circulation. Symptoms can include a chronic or recurrent cough, respiratory distress, hemoptysis, or pneumonia. Management typically involves treatment of symptoms, sometimes requiring surgery. This case reviews the clinical presentation, work-up, and management of pulmonary sequestration presenting in an adult patient.

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Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Sun 27, Feb 2022
Accepted: Tue 28, Jun 2022
Published: Fri 29, Jul 2022

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© 2023 Oyinem Odumah. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2022.06.02