Purpose: To compare the results of lacrimal syringing performed in clinical practice and under general anesthesia, efficacy anesthesia before endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy dacryoscintigraphy.Methods: The study included 148 eyes 82 patients who underwent silicone tube intubation from August 2018 to April 2019. were examined with re‐examined anesthesia. Based on change syringing, assigned inco...

Background and Objectives: External dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is the method of choice to treat nasolacrimal duct (NLD) obstruction and the other approaches are compared with it, with a failure rate of 4% to 13%. The current study aimed to assess the causes of failure in external DCR by postoperative endoscopic and pathological evaluation. <stro...

The laryngeal mask airway (LMA) was invented by Dr. Archie Brain at the London Hospital, Whitechapel, in 1981. Dr. Brain's main objective for the LMA was that it would provide a better method of maintaining a patient's airway than by face mask. Also, the LMA would be less hemodynamically stressful than with insertion of an endotracheal tube. The LMA consists of a silicone rubber tube connected ...

Objective The treatment of laryngotracheal stenosis is a major therapeutic challenge. Various treatments include observation, medical management, and surgical management. The most effective surgical management is resection and reconstruction. To the authors' knowledge, no reports have described the use of xenogenic acellular dermal matrix (ADM) for laryngotracheal stenosis. Methods A 27-year-ol...

We present a 3-year-old, preterm, male patient, who suffered bronchopulmonary dysplasia and was tracheostomised, giving rise to Cotton grade III subglottic stenosis (SS) secondary to prolonged intubation, which was subsequently treated by laryngotracheofissure with a posterior cricoid split and interposition of anterior costal cartilage and placement of a new suprastomal stent (Fig. 1). The lar...

There is no clear consensus concerning the best endoscopic treatment of benign refractory esophageal strictures due to caustic ingestion. Different procedures are currently used: frequent multiple dilations, retrievable self-expanding stent, nasogastric intubation and surgery. We describe a new technique to fix a suspended esophageal silicone prosthesis to the neck in benign esophageal strictur...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/res How can BAL be helpful to elucidate pulmonary complications arising from changes in the vaginal wall? The answer is given in a case report by Kim et al. [1] in this issue of Respiration. The authors report the case of a 46year-old woman who was admitted to hospital with acute respiratory failure resulting from acute pneumonitis requiring immediate intuba...