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Air Travel-Related Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.

Nikolai WajdaNishant Gupta
Published in: Current pulmonology reports (2018)
In general, it should be safe for most patients with DCLDs to undertake air travel. Patients should be counseled to seek medical attention and not board the airplane in the presence of sudden/new onset chest pain and/or dyspnea prior to boarding the plane.
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