A case report of successful therapy for neonatal chylothorax with pneumothorax by conservative medical treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neonatal chylothorax is a rare disease that causes breathing difficulties in newborns and is one of the most common causes of pleural effusion during the neonatal period. Neonatal chylothorax is often caused by lymph leakage into the chest and can be divided into the following 5 types: congenital chylothorax, traumatic chylothorax, postoperative chylothorax, embolic chylothorax, and spontaneous chylothorax. Among them, spontaneous chylothorax is the most common type of neonatal chylothorax and has unknown causes. The mortality rate of neonatal chylothorax is relatively high, but there are still no unified management guidelines or expert consensus on its treatment.

Case description

In this article, we report the case of a child in whom a large amount of pleural eff

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10080483 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature