Forty days old infant with Pig Bronchus, presenting with recurrent pneumonia: A Case Report

Pig bronchus is rare and usually asymptomatic, but it may also cause significant respiratory symptoms such as recurrent pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, atelectasis, and difficult airway management in surgical and critical care patients. This study is aimed to examine a case of pig bronchus in which the patient presented with recurrent pneumonia in her early days of life.

A case report is the study design utilized in this assessment of a 40-days-old girl from a consanguineous marriage, who presented with cough and difficulty breathing for approximately a month. She was referred from a provincial hospital with no improvement in respiratory symptoms after three times hospitalization since birth. Radiological investigation revealed pig bronchus as the cause of recurrent pneumonia.

Pig bronchi, if not diagnosed on time, may result in severe lung infection that can even result in fatal disease. A high level of clinical suspicion is required to initiate an appropriate diagnostic workup. The gold standard modality for the diagnosis of pig bronchus is computed tomography (CT), ideally with multi-detector three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction.