Liubomyr had a pine branch in his bronchi for a year and a half.
Surgeons at the Children’s Medicine Centre at OKHMATDYT Hospital successfully operated on a boy who had a pine branch in his bronchi for a year and a half
In the summer of 2022, 8-year-old Liubomyr began to have back pain and a fever. Then a local doctor referred the child to a hospital in Lviv. There, he was examined and diagnosed with right-sided pneumonia. She was treated with antibiotics and discharged home.
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After some time, the symptoms recurred. The boy even coughed up blood. Lubomyr was taken by ambulance to a Lviv hospital. Doctors again diagnosed him with right-sided pneumonia. A few months later, it happened again with identical symptoms.
The boy’s mother began to sound the alarm, as the disease was constantly recurring, and she was even more frightened by the constant bleeding when the child coughs. So they went to the reception department of the Centre for Children’s Medicine, OKHMATDYT Hospital, where the boy was immediately examined by specialists.
The doctors decided to perform a bronchoscopy on Lyubomyr, during which they discovered that the child had a foreign body in his bronchi – a small pine branch, which was the cause of all his symptoms. The patient has already been discharged home.