Abstract
Pulmonary myiasis is an unusual form of myiasis in humans and has been recently identified as a cause of eosinophilic pneumonia. We report the case of a 13-year-old Omani boy who presented to the Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman, in October 2014 with respiratory distress. Bronchial aspirates revealed features of eosinophilic pneumonia. Possible larvae identified in the cytology report, a high immunoglobulin E level and the patient history all indicated bronchial myiasis. The patient was treated with steroids and ventilation and has since been disease-free with no long-term side-effects. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first case of bronchial myiasis in Oman.
Highlights
Case report and literature review هلال اله شامي، قا سم ال سالمي، طلال الوردي، فاطمة رم ضان، سعاد الإ سماعلية،اريندوم أي ش
Pulmonary myiasis is an unusual form of myiasis in humans and has been recently identified as a cause of eosinophilic pneumonia
We report the case of a 13-year-old Omani boy who presented to the Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman, in October 2014 with respiratory distress
Summary
هلال اله شامي، قا سم ال سالمي، طلال الوردي، فاطمة رم ضان، سعاد الإ سماعلية،اريندوم أي ش. We report the case of a 13-year-old Omani boy who presented to the Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman, in October 2014 with respiratory distress. Most human cases of myiasis in Oman are ophthalmomyiasis caused by Oestrus ovis (sheep bot fly) of the Oestridae family.[1,2] Tracheopulmonary myiasis is very rare with only a few cases reported worldwide.[3,4,5,6,7,8,9] This case report presents a 13-year-old Omani boy with an unusual case of bronchial myiasis resulting from the inhalation of mature larvae which caused a severe pulmonary reaction. Myiasis due to O. ovis remains a rare cause of pulmonary disease and is a newly described cause of eosinophilic pneumonia in humans.[9]
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