Clinical Case of a Patient With Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia of Infancy, Who Is on Long-Term Oxygen Therapy at Home

Abstract

Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (NEHI) is an interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology that develops in infancy and manifests as persistent tachypnea syndrome. A highly informative scale for the clinical diagnosis of NEHI and CT of the lungs is used to diagnos the disease. The presence of a typical CT picture allows the diagnosis of NEHI to be made. We present a clinical case of a patient diagnosed on the basis of the scale of clinical diagnostics and a typical CT picture of NEHI, complicated by protein-energy insufficiency, chronic respiratory failure of II degree, who is on long-term home oxygen therapy.