Mounier-Kuhn syndrome

Mounier-Kuhn syndrome

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ICD9 = ICD9|748.3
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Mounier-Kuhn syndrome (also called tracheobronchomegaly) is a very rarecite journal |author=Menon B, Aggarwal B, Iqbal A |title=Mounier-Kuhn syndrome: report of 8 cases of tracheobronchomegaly with associated complications |journal=South Med J. |volume=101 |issue=1 |pages=83–87 |year=2008 |pmid=18176298 |doi=10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31815d4259 ] disease of the lungs and airways where the trachea and bronchi become abnormally wide.cite journal |last=Schwartz |first=W |coauthors=Rossoff L |title=Tracheobronchomegaly |journal=Chest |volume=106 |issue=5 |pages=1589–1590 |publisher=American College of Chest Physicians |year=Nov 1994 |url=http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/reprint/106/5/1589 |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-02-27 |pmid=7956426 |doi=10.1378/chest.106.5.1589 ] This leads to sputum collection in the lungs which results in repeated chest infections and bronchiectasis.

History

The term "Mounier-Kuhn syndrome" derives from the characterization of the condition by Mounier-Kuhn in 1932, while the name "tracheobronchomegaly" was introduced by Katz et al in 1962. [PMID 8091335 ] [PMID 13958486] [Mounier-Kuhn P. Dilatation de la trachée: constatations radiographiques etbronchoscopiques. Lyon Med. 1932;150:106-9.]

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