COMPLICATIONS OF BRONCHIECTASIS

<p>On autopsy material of fifty corpses, age 0-75 (Institute for Pathology of Medicine Faculty in Belgrade and KBC<br />Dragiša Mišović - Dedinje, Beograd) we have met with all kind of comlications of bronchyectazia and bronchyloectazia<br />which were mentioned in literature. All statement complications, which caused death, we classified into lung and out lung<br />ones. Among lung complications, we stated that pneumonia among children in a big number of cases of congenital<br />bronchyectazia and cystic fibrosis of lungs. The apses of lungs were represented in four cases of secular and spindle shaped bronchyectazia and in one case of distal secular bronchyectazia it was represented in empiem pleure. In two cases lung gangrene was noted. Among out lung complications we can emphasize two cases of sepses of brain Apses. Leptomeningitis was present at one case. Among long-term spread bronchyectazia and bronhyloectasis with chronically manure inflammation and lung abscesses (bronchiectasiae abscendons), we stated the deposit of amiloids in glomerulus's and blood vessel of kidney intersticium as well as in liver and spleen. Chronical lung heart (cor pulmonale chronicum) was the most often complication of bronchyectazia and bronchyloectasia in the middle and older age period of our cases and it had represented the major cause of death.</p>