al Jishi N, Dyer D, Sharief N, al-Alaiyan S
Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
J Pediatr Surg. 1994 Dec;29(12):1545-7. doi: 10.1016/0022-3468(94)90211-9.
A preterm infant, ventilated for hyaline membrane disease, had severe right-sided pulmonary interstitial emphysema, left-sided compression atelectasis, and bronchopleural fistula. Several modalities of treatment were tried and were unsuccessful. Selective bronchial occlusion with a balloon catheter resulted in dramatic improvement in the patient's clinical and radiographic condition.