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## FRANCE Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Asthma.-J. Turiaf and his co- workers reported in November to the French Society of Respiratory Pathology on 15 patients with asthma in whom air from the lungs entered the pleural and mediastinal spaces. These accidents usually occurred during a violent paroxysm of asthma and took the form of generalized or localized, unilateral or bilateral, pneumothorax with mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema. Sometimes there was prodromal thoracic pain, but more often the symptoms were masked by those of asthma. In a third of the patients, an effusion was present that was rich in eosinophils, although the general eosinophil count was not increased. The number of patients in whom the accidents oc- curred represented 0.75% of those with asthma seen by the authors in the course of 10 years. The accidents are generally well tolerated, their effects pass within a few weeks, and the course of the disease then proceeds as usual. Asthma is more important as a cause of nontuberculous spontaneous pneumo- thorax than has been recognized.

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Publisher

American Medical Association; American Medical Association (AMA) (ISSN 0002-9955)

Published

1956

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)