4. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS
Patient developed the complaint of shortness of breath 2 days post birth
and presented to a consultant at Multan Hospital where he was
diagnosed as having the pneumothorax secondary to pneumonia and
was intubated. Antibiotics were started for pneumonia treatment
7. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS
But it didn’t relieve his shortness of breath
Patient was referred to lahore for the management and presented to paeds
medicine emergency Mayo Hospital Lahore
His Chest tube was taken out and patient was put on ventilator on CMV
mode for 24 hours
Call was sent to the Paeds surgery Department meanwhile
8. EXAMINATION
On examination patient was tachyponeic
Trachea was shifted to the right
Percussion note was hyper resonant on left side
Air entry was reduced on left side
9. SUSPECTED DIAGNOSIS
Congenital lobar emphysema involving left upper lobe of lung was
made which is present in 40-50% of congenital lobar emphysema due
to suspected herniation of lung across midline on Xrays
CPAM was other differential diagnosis