Publications by authors named "Edgar Haasler"
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- A case report details a 56-year-old overweight smoker who experienced chronic hemoptysis, which is coughing up blood, due to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) causing repetitive negative pressures in the chest.
- The patient presented multiple times to the emergency room, exhibiting daytime sleepiness and requiring bronchoscopies that caused further airway collapse and bleeding.
- Polysomnography later revealed critical levels of OSA, which was successfully treated with positive pressure therapy, highlighting the need to consider OSA as a potential cause of hemoptysis in similar cases.
Background: Lung contusions often occur in the context of polytrauma, but much less frequently in sports injuries.
Case Description: We report on a 22-year-old patient who presented to our emergency room. On the same day he jumped from a 10 meter tower in a swimming pool and hit the surface of the water with his thorax and abdomen.
We present two case reports in which, in a surprising way, readable writing or numbers on the aspirated material provided useful information about the more detailed circumstances of the aspiration.In the first case, the patient complained of foreign body sensation after using a metered dose inhaler. A few hours later, the initially unknown aspirated material was recovered by flexible bronchoscopy.
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