The Cause of Frequent Infection and Persistent Cough Is Accessories Cardiac Bronc

Abstract

Anatomical variations or tracheobronchial anomaly (TBA) have been rarely reported in the literature. Different types of anatomical variations may be present, but accessory cardiac bronchus may be rare and may be the cause of persistent cough or lower respiratory tract infections. Two patients who are admitted to the Department of Chest Diseases of Harran University Faculty of Medicine, for more than a decade with complaints of cough and frequent infection, were found to have an accessory cardiac bronchus which is laterally on the right main bronchus, karena level, except for the upper lobe bronchus, by chest computed tomography and bronchoscopy. We believe that the knowledge of tracheal variations seen in the anatomy of the lungs may be important in surgical procedures such as lobectotomy and segmentectomy in the lungs, and may be useful in the evaluation of long-term cough or frequent recurrent lower respiratory tract infections.

Keywords; Accessory cardiac bronchus, lung, variation

Special Issue of Health Sciences

DOI: 10.7176/JSTR/6-03-35