Authors

• Dzulfikar Djalil Hakim ¹
• Feby Juwita Rahadian ²
• Dadang Somasetia ¹
• Stanza Peryoga ¹
• Fita Meilyana ¹

¹ Assistant Professor of Pediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Division, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran – Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia.

² General Physician, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran – Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia.

Abstract

Foreign body aspiration may cause airway obstruction, either partial or total, which can be life-threatening. Delayed diagnosis will increase patient morbidity, especially the occurrence of bacterial infections. This case report discusses chronic foreign body aspiration in a six year-old boy,in which signs and symptoms arise 4 years after foreign body aspiration occurred. The boy was the second child of the family.  He came from a Sundanese family, considered as low income family, and the parents were high school graduates.

Keywords

• Aspiration
• Chronic
• Foreign Body