A complication of peroral bronchoscopy

A complication of peroral bronchoscopy.

Flexible fibreoptic bronchoscopy is a safe procedure with a major complication rate of ,1% in most published studies [1]. In one retrospective study of .4,000 bronchoscopies, major complications (respiratory failure, pneumothorax and pulmonary haemorrhage of .50 mLs) occurred in 0.5% of procedures and minor complications (laryngospasm, vomiting, bronchospasm, vasovagal syncope and epistaxis) in...

Unusual complication of bronchoscopy

In the last twenty years, the field of bronchoscopy has become increasingly more complex and invasive. It is now widely used in the management of pulmonary diseases and has the benefit of low mortality and complication rates. Overall incidence of complications and mortality reported ranges around 1% and 0.02% respectively. Common complications of bronchoscopy include pulmonary haemorrhage, desa...

Melanoptysis as a complication of fibreoptic bronchoscopy.

The case is presented of a coal miner with bilateral masses of progressive massive fibrosis, who developed acute cavitation following fibreoptic bronchoscopy and biopsies. Indeed, immediately upon bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy, there was expectoration of abundant melanoptysis. Three days later, the chest radiograph showed a cavity and the patient again coughed up black material, in th...

Bronchoscopy and Oesophagoscopy. A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery

A new complication related to laser bronchoscopy in a single lung transplant recipient.

We report a nearly complete obstruction of the left mainstem bronchus by a fibrinomyxoid plaque about 12 h after laser resection of scar/granulation tissue at a left bronchial anastomosis 27 days after a left single lung transplant. The formation of this plaque was associated with respiratory failure. The plaque was removed by grasping the plaque with biopsy forceps inserted through a fiberopti...