Flexible bronchoscopy in Ghana: initial experience in a tertiary hospital.
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Biopsy
Bronchi
/ pathology
Bronchoalveolar Lavage
/ methods
Bronchoscopy
/ methods
Female
Ghana
Hospitalization
/ statistics & numerical data
Hospitals, Teaching
Humans
Length of Stay
Lung Diseases
/ diagnosis
Male
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
Tertiary Care Centers
Young Adult
Bronchoscopy
Ghana
infectious disease
lung cancer
lung diseases
malignancy
Journal
The Pan African medical journal
ISSN: 1937-8688
Titre abrégé: Pan Afr Med J
Pays: Uganda
ID NLM: 101517926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
02
09
2020
accepted:
02
03
2021
entrez:
28
6
2021
pubmed:
29
6
2021
medline:
7
7
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
the use of flexible bronchoscopy in developing countries is limited. We report our initial experience and outcome with the use of flexible bronchoscopy at the Tamale Teaching Hospital in Ghana. This is the first reported case series of flexible bronchoscopy in Ghana. a retrospective review of patients who had flexible bronchoscopy from 2017-2019 was analyzed. Patient demographics and outcomes were summarized using frequency distribution and percentages. we performed flexible bronchoscopies in 33 patients with mean age of 43 years. All patients were symptomatic at the time of presentation with the most common symptoms being chest pain (63.6%), dyspnea (57.6%) and cough (48.5%). The indication for bronchoscopy in most of the cases were suspected malignancy in 16 (48.5%) followed by infection 9 (27.3%), trauma 4 (12.1%) and others 4 (12.1%). We observed abnormal bronchoscopic findings in 25 (75.8%) of the cases with most of the pathologies in the right main bronchus. Twelve patients had toilet bronchoscopy, 6 had biopsy, 5 had no intervention and 4 patients had bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Culture and sensitivity results were available for 11 patients, of which 7 patients had negative results. Thirteen (13) malignancies and 11 inflammatory/infectious diseases were diagnosed in this case series. The mean procedure time was 32 minutes with mean hospital stay of 7 days. There was no complication or mortality in our series.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34178217
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2021.38.298.25833
pii: PAMJ-38-298
pmc: PMC8197046
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
298Informations de copyright
Copyright: Adamu Issaka et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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