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Neumología y cirugía de tórax

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Neumol. cir. torax vol.82 n.3 México Jul./Sep. 2023  Epub Mar 03, 2025

 

Letter to the editor

Reply

Respuesta

Servio Tulio Torres-Rodríguez1  * 

Karla Marleny Reyes-Zúñiga1 

Iván Estuardo Chang-Castillo1 

Danilo Herrera-Cruz1 

1Hospital San Vicente, Guatemala, Guatemala.


I believe that as more cases are published, the recognition of this entity will be much better understood, recognized and treated. The history of lung disease must be kept in mind, since many architectural changes of the bronchial tree are a consequence of them. Although bronchiolitis is more common in children, it can affect adults. The disease can progress to severe obstructive respiratory failure, especially in the case of constrictive bronchiolitis.1 The radiological image of a hyperlucent lung should guide us to the suspicion of this syndrome and the treatment is in principle conservative and aimed at preventing recurrent infections.2 Surgical treatment should be reserved for advanced cases and the magnitude of the type of surgery will be justified by the structural damage to the lung, or by the implications of the hyperinflated lung that can act as a tension pneumothorax by displacing the mediastinum so severely that it can limit healthy lung function; Therefore, surgical intervention is reserved for: a) patients with recurrent lung infections, b) patients who do not respond, or c) patients whose symptoms are not adequately controlled with optimal medical treatment.3

References

1. Fournier M, Dauriat G, Thabut G, Colombat M, Groussard O. Bronquiolitis del adulto. In: Triaté de Médicine. EMC - AKOS. Vol. 12. Elsevier; 2008:1-10. doi: 10.1016/S1636-5410(08)70604-4. [ Links ]

2. Restrepo, Mateo C, Gregorio TJ, Jorge O. Neumología Pneumology. Acta Médica Colomb. 2018;43(2):198. [ Links ]

3. Behrendt A, Lee Y. Swyer-James-MacLeod Syndrome. StatPearls. 2024. [ Links ]

*Corresponding author: Servio Tulio Torres-Rodríguez, MD. Hospital San Vicente, Guatemala, Guatemala. E-mail: stuliotr@gmail.com

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