Congenital tracheal stenosis.

Preterm Newborn with Isolated Congenital Tracheal Stenosis: A Very Rare and Fatal Condition

Congenital tracheal stenosis is a lethal and very rare congenital malformation with an estimated incidence of two per 100,000 newborns. It leads to functional atresia of the trachea. It usually leads to infant death if there is no accessory connections like tracheo-oesophageal fistula to allow for spontaneous breathing .We report a male infant born at 32 weeks of gestation presented with respir...

Congenital tracheal diseases: diagnosis and management

Aims/Objectives They contain two lesions: anomaly and stenosis. They may associate with other congenital lesions especially pulmonary artery sling. Tracheal stenosis is the main factor causing airway obstruction. Depend on the degree of tracheal stenosis, clinical manifestation ranges from having some episodes of stridor to severe respiratory failure and death. Reconstruction surgery is the met...

Severe airway obstruction in an infant with congenital tracheal stenosis and congenital heart disease -A case report-

Congenital tracheal stenosis (CTS), though rare, is important because the mortality and morbidity rates are high in infants. Especially, associated congenital heart disease (CHD) in these infants may compound the effects of airway pathology. A 3-week-old patient with long-segmental tracheal stenosis below an anomalous right-upper lobe (RUL) bronchus had undergone a total correction of double ou...

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

Repair of Long-segment Congenital Tracheal Stenosis

Long-segment tracheal stenosis in infants and small children is difficult to manage and can be life-threatening. A retrospective review of 12 patients who underwent surgery for congenital tracheal stenosis between 1996 and 2004 was conducted. The patients' median age was 3.6 months. All patients had diffuse tracheal stenosis involving 40-61% (median, 50%) of the length of the trachea, which was...