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Akira Murata1, Ayumi Kouno, Kazuo Yamamoto
1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Infection and Oncology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Tokyo, Japan. a-murata@nms.ac.jp
Abstract:
This case report presents a patient with advanced diffuse panbronchiolitis accompanied by chronic respiratory failure, marked cachexia, and refractory spontaneous pneumothorax. Because instillation of a pleurodesis agent and thoracoscopy were considered highly risky and invasive, we instead treated the patient with intravenous administration of a coagulation factor XIII concentrate, and the pneumothorax resolved. This case suggests refractory pneumothorax in a restrictive ventilatory disorder can be effectively treated with noninvasive intravenous administration of coagulation factor XIII concentrate.
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