I read with interest the report on the treatment of tracheal compression due to a gastric pull-up by Kim et al (March 2002).1 The patient was treated with metal stenting for this condition, with improvement as expected. However, I am somewhat puzzled about the metal stent as a first-line treatment. As stated in the report, metal stents have significant potential for complications, especially in...

We recently witnessed a neonatal intensive care unit infant succumb to tracheal agenesis and noticed, at the same time, in the news headlines of adults being “saved” by “labmade tracheas” [1]. This stimulated our curiosity to review recent developments in tissue engineering and stem cell research that may challenge prior authors' claims that tracheal agenesis is “uniformly fatal” [2]. Although ...

BACKGROUND Central airway obstruction (CAO) is defined as obstruction of trachea and principal bronchi. Therapeutic rigid bronchoscopy with tracheobronchial stenting using silicon stents is a well established procedure in the management of such conditions. However, there is limited experience with this technique in India. METHODS Between January 2010 and April 2010, Dumon stents were placed i...

BACKGROUND Tracheomalacia is a feared complication of goitre surgery, but considered rare in the Western World. This study aimed to estimate the risk of tracheomalacia in a contemporary series of patients with goitres causing significant tracheal compression. METHODS A retrospective review was conducted of thyroidectomies performed in a UK tertiary referral centre over a 30 month period. Anae...

OBJECTIVE Among the many therapeutic options for treating tracheal stenosis (e.g. bouginage, laser resection and stenting), segmental resection and reconstruction with end-to-end anastomosis is the method of choice. We verified this in an analysis of clinical material. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 110 tracheal sleeve resections performed between 1985 and 2001. Data before...

Twenty one patients with tracheal tumours (10 primary and 11 secondary) have been treated with the neodymium YAG laser under general anaesthesia. Fourteen of these patients presented with impending asphyxia and in 11 cases this was dramatically relieved with emergency laser treatment. The improvements in peak expiratory flow (PEF) ranged from 26% to 512%. The three patients who did not respond ...

Recently, endotracheal stenting has become critical in treating respiratory diseases. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic recent years, many patients had stenosis because of long-term intubation, and silicone stents can be used treat tracheal these patients. Standard airway are tubes that provide immediate relief but prone migration. In this work, we design different analyze them trachea evaluate sten...