Rahman S M Tajdit, Shahriar Tasnim, Akhter Kazi Munzerin, Tarannum Adiba, Hossain Mosharraf
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Khulna Medical College, Khulna, Bangladesh.
Respir Med Case Rep. 2022 Mar 12;37:101629. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101629. eCollection 2022.
Pulmonary agenesis is a rare disorder, and the right-sided one is much rarer. Most of the cases are diagnosed during early life. Because of rarity, it can be misdiagnosed and even more challenging to diagnose when presented during adult life. However, we report a rare late manifestation of right-sided unilateral lung agenesis in a 22-year-old female patient who was treated for pneumonia several times, the first reported case from Bangladesh. We also highlighted the diagnostic approach of the case in low-resource settings.
肺不发育是一种罕见的疾病,而右侧肺不发育更为罕见。大多数病例在早年被诊断出来。由于其罕见性,它可能被误诊,在成年期出现时诊断甚至更具挑战性。然而,我们报告了一例罕见的右侧单侧肺不发育的晚期表现,患者为一名22岁女性,曾多次因肺炎接受治疗,这是来自孟加拉国的首例报告病例。我们还强调了在资源匮乏地区该病例的诊断方法。