Heavy Chain Disease with Cystic Lung Disease Presenting as Recurrent Spontaneous Pneumothorax in a Young Adult
Konstantinos Dodos, Tsampika Vasileia Kalamara, Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou · 2025
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Description
Konstantinos Dodos and co-authors wrote a case report from 2025 on a rare blood disorder that showed up as repeated lung collapse. The disorder makes the body pour out broken pieces of antibodies. It can harm the lungs, but cysts there are very rare with it. The patient was a healthy man of twenty-three.
Over two years, air leaked from his lungs into his chest more than once. Scans showed many thin-walled cysts in both lungs, most in the upper parts. Blood tests found the broken antibody piece with no partner chains, which named the disorder. His marrow held a mild rise in antibody-making cells, with no sign of cancer. Other causes of lung cysts were ruled out. The team urges doctors to think of this disorder when lung cysts have no clear cause.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Konstantinos Dodos, Tsampika Vasileia Kalamara, Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |