{"pk":19250,"title":"Pneumothorax in Liberia: Complications of Tuberculosis","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis (TB) is a known cause of secondary pneumothorax. In areas with endemic TB, complications from the disease, including pneumothorax, are increasing in prevalence. We present the cases of 3 patients (ages 32 years, 17 years, and 3 months) seen in the emergency department at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. Each presented with shortness of breath and cough, and with some degree of respiratory distress. Airway compromise was present with tracheal or mediastinal deviation. Each patient underwent tube thoracostomy with improvement in pneumothorax and respiratory status. [West J Emerg Med.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"neumothorax"},{"word":"airway"},{"word":"tuberculosis"},{"word":"International"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"Respiratory Tract Diseases"}],"section":"Endemic Infections","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t71v3dq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"B","last_name":"Grossman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford, California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Erin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nasrallah","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Chicago, Illinois","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-05-25T17:32:24Z","date_accepted":"2011-05-25T17:32:24Z","date_published":"2013-02-15T19:03:47Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19250/galley/9527/download/"}]}