Congenital tracheal stenosis: what should we look at for successful tracheoplasty?

Costal cartilage tracheoplasty for congenital long-segment tracheal stenosis.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate and report the outcome of costal cartilage tracheoplasty for the treatment of congenital long-segment tracheal stenosis. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Academic tertiary care children's hospital. PATIENTS Consecutive series of 10 patients who presented with congenital long-segment tracheal stenosis. INTERVENTION All patients underwent costal cartilage ...

Clinical outcomes of slide tracheoplasty in congenital tracheal stenosis.

OBJECTIVES Treatment of long-segment congenital tracheal stenosis (CTS) remains challenging. Recently, slide tracheoplasty has become the standard approach in many centres. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes of slide tracheoplasty. METHODS Between 2004 and 2011, 18 patients underwent slide tracheoplasty in our centre. The median patient age was 2.5 months (range, 18 d...

Tracheal resection associated with slide tracheoplasty for long-segment congenital tracheal stenosis involving the carina.

[Sliding tracheoplasty: a good choice for the treatment of congenital tracheal stenosis].

When infants with recurrent wheezing have a clinical course inconsistent with a common diagnosis, anatomic malformations should be considered in diagnostic workup, followed by medical stabilization and early therapy. A careful history and physical examination could reveal important diagnostic clues that indicate the need to perform a fiberoptic bronchoscopy, which in the reported case showed tr...

Surgical outcome of slide tracheoplasty in patients with long congenital segment tracheal stenosis and single lung.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to assess the surgical outcome of slide tracheoplasty in patients with congenital tracheal stenosis and single lung. METHODS Pre, intra- and postoperative data were collected. Anatomy and associated anomalies were described. RESULTS Seven patients (median age 5 months; range 39 days-1 year) with single lung underwent slide tracheoplasty. Single right lung w...