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Intensive Care Management of an Adult Patient With Rare Chilaiditi Syndrome Presenting as Abdominal Breathing: A Case Report.
Curēus 2024 Februrary
Chilaiditi syndrome (CS) is an uncommon case of the asymptomatic radiographic finding of an intestinal loop between the liver and the diaphragm. The most crucial phases in the diagnosis process are a thorough physical examination and precise imaging, particularly in challenging disorders such as CS. The presence of free air under the right hemidiaphragm in this syndrome, the diagnosis of which is based on radiographic imaging, might direct the start of treatment without the need for surgical intervention. An 86-year-old man, with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was checked out in our hospital's emergency department (ED) after experiencing nausea and vomiting. Having abdominal breathing while the patient was in an internal medicine department owing to a urinary tract infection (UTI) and acute kidney injury (AKI), he was moved to the intensive care unit (ICU). The patient was treated with respiratory physiotherapy, inhaler bronchodilator treatment, antibiotic therapy, enema, and laxatives. Medical imaging is the primary diagnostic tool for CS, guided by the symptoms. In patients like this elderly patient who was taken to ICU from internal medicine due to acute respiratory failure and abdominal breathing, when free air is detected in the subdiaphragmatic region, control should be provided with computed tomography (CT), and non-invasive mechanical ventilation should be applied.
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