A case of concomitant branching anomalies of the tracheobronchial tree in a female patient with COVID-19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.29296/25877305-2023-07-15
Issue: 
7
Year: 
2023

Associate Professor M. Shteiner(1, 2), MD; Yu. Biktagirov(2, 3), Candidate of Medical Sciences; Professor E. Korymasov(2), MD; E. Krivoshchekov(2), MD; Professor A. Zhestkov(2), MD; A. Makova(1, 4), Candidate of Medical Sciences
1-Samara City Hospital Four
2-Samara State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia
3-V.D. Seredavin Samara Regional Clinical Hospital
4-“Reaviz” Medical University, Samara

A female patient with the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19 underwent a therapeutic and diagnostic bronchoscopy for an increasing non-resolving obstruction of the lower respiratory tract with bronchial secretions, which revealed tracheobronchial tree branching anomalies: the displaced tracheal bronchus (the proximal transposition of the right upper lobe bronchus, the accessory segmental bronchus of the middle lobe of the left lung, and the left accessory cardiac bronchus). The case is interesting since these anatomical anomalies were asymptomatic, the clinical presentations were due to the underlying disease.
Keywords: 
novel coronavirus infection COVID-19
bronchoscopy
tracheobronchial tree branching anomalies
displaced tracheal bronchus
proximal transposition of the right upper lobe bronchus

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