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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Causes
Pneumothorax can also occur as part of medical procedures, such as the insertion of a central venous catheter (an intravenous catheter) in thesubclavian vein or jugular vein. While rare, it is considered a serious complication and needs immediate treatment. Other causes includemechanical ventilation, emphysema and rarely other lung diseases (pneumonia).
Causes in alphabetical order
- Acupuncture
- Bacterial pneumonia with abscess
- Barotrauma
- Blunt trauma
- Bronchial asthma
- Cancer
- Catamenial pneumothorax (due to endometriosis in the chest cavity)
- Central bronchial carcinoma
- Coccidiomycosis
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Emphysema
- Eosinophilic Granuloma
- Hydatid lung disease
- Lung emphysema
- Marfan's Syndrome
- Mechanical ventilation
- Medastinal emphysema
- Paragonimiasis
- Positive end expiratory pressure or PEEP
- Pneumoconiosis
- Penetrating trauma
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- Primary spontaneous pneumothorax
- Pulmonary lymphangiomatoid granulomatosis
- Pulmonary hemosiderosis
- Rheumatoid lung disease
- Rupture of cysts
- Sarcoidosis
- Spontaneously (most commonly in tall slim young males and in Marfan syndrome)
- Sudden chest compression
- Tuberculosis