ArticleRespiratory medicine case reports2014
Chyloptysis causing plastic bronchitis.
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- Comparative analysis of clinical and CT manifestations between complex lymphatic anomalies with and without chyloptysis.Japanese journal of radiology · 2026Article
- A nomogram model for predicting the risk factors of plastic bronchitis in children.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Case Series: clinical challenges in pediatric plastic bronchitis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Prediction of risk factors of plastic bronchitis in children with severe Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia.Biomedical engineering online · 2025Article
- Analysis of the Risk Factors for Plastic Bronchitis in Children with Severe Adenovirus Pneumonia: A Retrospective Study.Infection and drug resistance · 2024Article
- Clinical features and risk factors of plastic bronchitis caused by refractory Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children: a practical nomogram prediction model.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Recycling plastic: diagnosis and management of plastic bronchitis among adults.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021Review
- Chyloptysis with chylopericardium, a rare case and mini-review.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2018Review
- Plastic Bronchitis in an AIDS Patient with Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma.Case reports in pulmonology · 2018Article
- Plastic Bronchitis in Adult and Pediatric Patients: A Review of its Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Missouri medicineReview
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Abstract
Chyloptysis is a rare clinical problem that is associated with conditions affecting lymphatic channels in the thorax. Diagnosis is usually made when the patients present with expectoration of milky-white sputum or of thick tenacious mucus in the shape of smaller bronchi (bronchial cast). Typically the symptoms resolve after coughing up of the bronchial casts. Pleural, mediastinal, pulmonary or lymphatic abnormalities result in chyloptysis. Lymphangiography and detection of lipids (cholesterol or triglycerides) in sputum help to establish the diagnosis. However, lymphangiography may not be positive in all patients. We report 2 patients with chyloptysis and bronchial casts with different etiologies. Abnormal lymphatics were demonstrated in one of our cases, but the second patients lymphangiogram was normal. In this patient we suspect that high venous filling pressures due to congestive heart failure had a causative effect in the setting of compromised lymphatic drainage in the thorax due to a prior history of radiation therapy to the chest for lymphoma.
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