Congenital Bronchoesophageal Fistula Causing Only Chronic Cough: One case.

Joo, Myung Sun; Kwak, Seung Min; Jo, Chul Ho; Shin, Yong Woon; Kim, Sae Whan

doi:1996.43.5.812

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 43(5); 1996 > Article

Case Report

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1996;43(5):812-817.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1996.43.5.812 Published online October 1, 1996.

Congenital Bronchoesophageal Fistula Causing Only Chronic Cough: One case.

Myung Sun Joo, Seung Min Kwak, Chul Ho Jo, Yong Woon Shin, Sae Whan Kim

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Korea.
²Department of Thoracic Surgery, Inha University Hospital, Korea.

Abstract

There were so many causes of chronic coughing including postnasal drip, pneumonia, nasal polyp, asthma, interstinal lung disease etc. Congenital bronchoesophageal fistula was not usually thought as cause of chronic coughing. A 46-year-old female patient suffered from chronic coughing without usual causes. Her chest X-ray viewed normally. She coughed especially after swallowing foods. So we recommended her esophagogram and it revealed broncho-esphageal fistula. She underwent surgical resection of broncho-esophageal fistula. She was well without cough after the surgery. We reported a case of congenital broncho-esphageal fistula that had caused chronic coughing without any evidence of pneumonia, malignancy, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, inflammation, asthma, nasal polyp, etc. So we should suspect the bronchoesophageal fistula when patients cough chronically with eating, and recommend the esophagogram.

Key Words: Congenital, bronchoesophageal fistula, chronic coughing