A 9-Year-Old Boy With Recurrent Chest Pain and Nonresolving Pneumonia

Dvir Gatt; Micha Aviram; Khaled Alasad; Shalom Ben-Shimol; Benjamin Hyatt Taragin; Inbal Golan-Tripto

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2020.07.043

A 9-Year-Old Boy With Recurrent Chest Pain and Nonresolving Pneumonia

Chest. 2020 Dec;158(6):e289-e293. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.07.043.

Authors

Dvir Gatt¹, Micha Aviram², Khaled Alasad³, Shalom Ben-Shimol⁴, Benjamin Hyatt Taragin⁵, Inbal Golan-Tripto²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva; Pediatric Pulmonary Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Pediatrics, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva; Pediatric Pulmonary Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
³ Pediatric Pulmonary Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva.
⁴ Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
⁵ Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

PMID: 33280771
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.07.043

Abstract

A previously healthy, 9-year-old boy presented with five recurrent episodes of left-sided chest pain with low-grade fever over the last 18 months. The pain usually lasted for few hours, was severe and consistent, and resolved spontaneously. It worsened during inspiration, physical activity, and swallowing. He did not experience any cough, dyspnea, chills, cold sweats, or weight loss. His medical and family history was unremarkable.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Bronchoscopy
Chest Pain / diagnosis
Chest Pain / etiology*
Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / complications*
Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis
Humans
Male
Pneumonia / diagnosis
Pneumonia / etiology*
Radiography, Thoracic
Tomography, X-Ray Computed