Austrian doctors Surprised the condition of a 52-year-old long-term smoker who complained about breathing difficulties and chronic cough that was supposed to bother him for 14 years. Using a small camera, they revealed that the patient’s throat grew real hair. . His Rare condition was supposed to trigger an accident from youth.
The case of an unnamed patient was described in detail in the report published. Explained that The Austrian came to a hospital with serious respiratory problems that made his life unpleasant. Found the patient He smoked for more than three decades, so his symptoms were associated with cigarette use.
A team of doctors decided to explore his airways using a small camera. But they came across something that surprised them extremely. The patient had a number of dark, bacteria covered with hair that had a length of a few centimeters. Although doctors managed to pull them out, the procedure did not provide a long -term relief. Hair Over time, they grew again.
Austrian doctors to the patient initially suggested to stop smoking, but even this change did not help him. Therefore, they approached endoscopic argon plasma coagulation, or burning the roots in the throat. Have done two interventions that have completely disappeared hair.
The authors of the report believe that a rare disease has caused two things. The first was an unpleasant event that happened to the patient when he was 10 years old. Explained that they were almost drowned and the healthcare professionals had to cut his trachea to breathe again. When his condition has improved, The opening was closed using a skin and cartilage transplant from the ear. The presumption of doctors was confirmed by the fact that the hair grew around the transplanted area.
The second thing that could cause hair growth in his neck was smoking itself. Have made it clear that this bad habit It can cause inflammation of the throat, which in rare cases can turn the surrounding tissue into cells of hair follicles.
