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Case Reports
. 2020 Nov 30;12(11):e11812.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.11812.

Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Typhoid

Khalid L Khan  1 , Shahid Ahmad  1 , Mehr Nisa  1 , Muhammad Hashim Peracha  2
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Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Typhoid

Khalid L Khan et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

We report a rare case of a 12-year-old girl who presented with a short history of diarrhea, vomiting and fever after traveling to Pakistan. During the course of initial investigations, her chest radiograph showed a primary spontaneous pneumothorax. There was no previous history of pulmonary disease. She was diagnosed as having Salmonella Typhi based on positive blood cultures. In the literature, spontaneous pneumothorax has been associated with typhoid fever as a complication of the disease in the pre-antibiotic era. However, a spontaneous pneumothorax associated with typhoid fever has never been reported to our knowledge in the post-antibiotic era.

Keywords: pneumothorax; typhoid.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Chest X-ray showing left spontaneous pneumothorax.
Figure 2
Figure 2. CT Thorax showing resolution of the pneumothorax and no evidence of blebs or bullae
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