Macklin Effect

We present the case of an adult white man found dead in a psychiatric institution with fine white powder monoammonium phosphate deposited over the entire face after he insufflated the contents of a dry chemical fire extinguisher. Exclusion of tracheobronchial and esophageal causes.

Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum And Macklin Effect Overview

Macklin Effect In Blunt Chest Trauma Eurorad

Pneumomediastinum And Pneumoperitoneum After Blunt Chest

The macklin effect was diagnosed when an air collection adjacent to a bronchus and a pulmonary vessel could be clearly identified on the chest ct.

Macklin effect. The macklin effect describes one of the pathophysiological processes of pneumomediastinum in blunt chest trauma. Hammans syndrome also known as macklins syndrome is a syndrome of spontaneous subcutaneous emphysema air in the subcutaneous tissues of the skin and pneumomediastinum air in the mediastinum the center of the chest cavity sometimes associated with pain and less commonly dyspnea difficulty breathing dysphonia and a low grade fever. View this abstract online. To review the etiology and pathophysiology of pneumomediastinum in severe blunt trauma with a special interest in one of its possible origins the macklin effect. The macklin effect relates to a three step pathophysiologic process. A baharudin mmed r m sayuti md h shahid dlomcps. The macklin effect accounts for 40 of severe blunt traumatic pneumomediastinum. A frequent etiology for pneumomediastinum in severe blunt chest trauma. Case report the macklin effect pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium following blunt chest trauma ill 71i11i11illl1. Retrospective analysis of patients clinical files chest ct and bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy reports. The macklin effect can be frequently seen on imaging by multidetector row computed tomography ct of patients who are found to have spontaneous pneumomediastinum from respiratory causes other than chest trauma. Blunt traumatic alveolar ruptures air dissection along bronchovascular sheaths and spreading of this blunt.