OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Evaluate and compare surgical outcomes of slide tracheoplasty for the treatment of congenital tracheal stenosis in children with and without pulmonary malformations. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review at a tertiary care pediatric medical center. METHODS We identified patients with tracheal stenosis who underwent slide tracheoplasty from 2001 to 2014, and a subset ...

objective the associations between imperforate anus and spinal and vertebral abnormalities and neurologic deficits are well recognized; these neurologic deficits have been considered static rather than progressive. however, recent experience indicates that some patients may develop progressive neurologic problems due to spinal cord lesions that are amenable to neurosurgical correction. material...

The causes of congenital hydrocephalus vary widely and have an important effect in determining the future counseling of affected cases. We analyzed the postmortem findings of 49 autopsies diagnosed as hydrocephalus to find the causes and related conditions. The cases were collected during the last 10 years (1981-1990). The cases consisted of 25 cases associated with various congenital malformat...

Congenital lung anomalies are increasingly diagnosed in adults, because they are missed in childhood, or as a consequence of incomplete resections at a younger age. They have unique manifestations, often mimic other thoracic pathology, and can present acutely and necessitate emergent evaluation and management. Misdiagnosis is common. This article deals with the patterns of presentation, clinica...

Congenital chest malformations may affect the foregut, pulmonary airway, vasculature, chest wall, and mediastinum. An understanding of fetal chest masses and their complications is essential for patient counseling, appropriate management of pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal care planning. Ultrasonography is the primary imaging modality used for the prenatal evaluation of chest malformations. Ma...

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangectasia (HHT) or Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome, is a rare genetic disorder with autosomal dominance and variable penetrance. The typical findings of the disease are telangiectasias in skin and mucous membranes, and arteriovenous malformations presenting in the organs like lung, intestine, brain and liver. It is characterized by the classic triad of recurrent epistaxis,...

Pulmonary agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly. We report the case of an 8-year-old boy with left lung agenesis, without any other congenital malformations. When the patient presented symptoms, including cough, wheezing, and dyspnea, with no clinical improvement after a period of 30 days, imaging studies were conducted and the diagnosis was made.

BACKGROUND Patients with arteriovenous malformations are routinely monitored with arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) estimations (breathing air) from which an oxygen shunt fraction can be calculated. This simple estimation has been compared with an anatomically defined estimate of the right to left shunt using a radioisotopic method. The fall in SaO2 which occurs in patients with pulmonary arter...