ABSTRACT
Aspiration of foreign body into the bronchus is one the emergency problems, which emergency measures are required for its removal. This problem is frequently occurs in children and in the sixth decade of life in patients with an underlying disease, and patients presents with a history of sudden choking and coughing following swallowing. The patient is a 38-year-old male without a history of diseases who had referred since 13 years ago after swallowing a metal zipper, without any symptoms at the time of aspiration. After several hospitalizations and receiving many antibiotics and the diagnosis of pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and lack of appropriate, he was suspected for the presence of a foreign body, and a half meter metal wire was removed from his right bronchus by flexible bronchoscopy in two stages after general anesthesia.
ABSTRACT
Exposure of DNA to sulfur mustard gas may increase the inheritance of asthma in chemical warfare victims' [CWV] offspring. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of asthma in children of CWV and compare it to asthmatic children in the general population. Four hundred and nine children from 130 CWV fathers and 440 children from 145 asthmatic parents from two cities in Iran participated in this study. The prevalence of asthma was determined by standard questionnaire released for epidemiological survey of asthma in children and compared between two groups. The prevalence of asthma in the CWV group was 15%; this was not significantly different from the control group [12.5%]. The children of the CWV group reported a significantly greater incidence of wheezing [1.2 +/- 3.1 attacks] per year, but the control group reported more severe attacks leading to speech difficulties [3%] and coughing [7%]. Regression analysis showed that with increasing family size in the control group, the number of subjects suffering from asthmatic symptoms decreases significantly [r=0.86, P=0.001]