Resumen de Hiperinsuflación pulmonar en un recien nacido

María del Mar Ballesteros García, M. E. Cabezas Tapia, Carmen Medina Monzón, María Baquero Cano, Ester Gil Pons

• Congenital lobar emphysema is a congenital pulmonary malformation due to a excessive insuflation or one or more lungs lobes. Generally, it presented in a newborn as respiratory distress with oxygen necessity. It can be detected as marked hypoventilation of the affected lobe, leading to the mistaken diagnosis of pneumothorax. It's highly important to know this malformative disease. The fact of having a previous normal X-ray of the patient never rules out the diagnosis. A correct diagnosis would avoid a thoracic drainage which might worsen the respiratory distress.