A fatal case of tracheobronchial rhinosporidiosis

Tracheobronchial rhinosporidiosis: an uncommon life‐threatening benign cause of airway obstruction

“…Patients may present with cough, wheeze, breathlessness, stridor, haemoptysis, or collapsed lung. If there is critical airway narrowing, there may be rapidly developing respiratory distress and even sudden death [5,6]. Acute hypoxaemia in our patient was likely due to the rapidly growing bronchial mass extending and occluding the lower trachea, compromising both lungs.…”

“…The first case of tracheobronchial rhinosporidiosis was reported in 1956 by Thomas et al [5]. An extensive literature search in PubMed/MEDLINE and Google Scholar using the free text term tracheobronchial rhinosporidiosis revealed only 15 cases, including the index case [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] (Table 1).…”

Rigid Bronchoscopic Management of Tracheobronchial Rhinosporidiosis Report of 5 Cases and Systematic Review of Literature

“…The age of patients ranged between 30 and 73 years. 5,6 All cases are from either India (22/25, 88%) or Bangladesh (3/25, 12%). Among cases from India, 72.7% (16/22) have been reported from South India, including all our patients.…”

“…16 Thirteen patients had coexistent disease elsewhere at the time of presentation. CT chest was done in 17 (68%) of the cases, 3 (12%) cases [4][5][6] were reported before the advent of CT, 2 (8%) cases 14,20 showed no record of CT, in 2 (8%) cases no CT was done (1 case managed as an emergency 10 and 1 before CT was available in that locality 7 ), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was done in 1 case. The position of mass was tracheal in 14 patients (subglottic in 6, mid and distal tracheal in 8), restricted to bronchus in 6 patients, 4,13,16,18 and both tracheal and bronchial in 5 patients.…”

“…All 25 patients of TBR have been men. The age of patients ranged between 30 and 73 years 5,6 . All cases are from either India (22/25, 88%) or Bangladesh (3/25, 12%).…”