Shocked Abu Dhabi doctors find fish bone stuck in girl's lung

Shocked doctors treating a young girl with breathing difficulties found an unexpected cause of her worsening asthma when they discovered a fish bone lodged in her lungs.

The Emirati patient had visited numerous hospitals to try and diagnose her breathing problems that were leaving her constantly wheezy and with coughing fits.

Six months of lack of sleep and deterioration in her quality of life encouraged her to visit specialists at the Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi.

During a chest scan, doctors found a thin, hard body with a sharp end lodged in the patient’s lung, which doctors initially thought was a toothpick.

“The moment we saw the imaging of the patient’s lungs we realized her symptoms had been triggered by a foreign object lodged in her lung,” said Dr Wahla.

Upon identifying the root cause of the symptoms, they performed a rigid bronchoscopy to examine the exact location of the item and discovered a fish bone that had been stuck there for months.

Specialists removed the bone from the patient’s lung during a second rigid bronchoscopy procedure, where they were able to grasp the fish bone with special forceps to remove it.