Bronchial anastomosis is now a practicable procedure. It was first successfully performed in dogs and reported by Jackson, Lafkin, Tuttle, and Hampton (1949), and in that same year Tuttle described the first successful anastomosis in the human subject after accidental division of a major bronchus. Later reports followed (Mathey and Oustrieres, 1951), and tne healing properties of the bronchial ...

BACKGROUND Tracheal stenosis is still a serious consequence of endotracheal intubation. Previous classification systems are commonly descriptive and are not intended to deal with management approach. The aim of this study was to present a classification system for post intubation tracheal stenosis and evaluate its efficacy in distinguishing critically ill patients who need surgical intervention...

A 37-year-old male athlete was diagnosed with primary tracheal adenoid cystic carcinoma following investigation for dyspnea, wheeze, and eventual stridor. Preoperative bronchoscopy revealed a highly vascular tumor 4 cm distal to the cricoid with no gross disease extending to the carina. Imaging revealed circumferential tracheal irregularity immediately inferior to the cricoid, with no definite ...

Dr. R. Santosham (Chennai, India): Two short questions. One is in patients who were laserized, did you find more technical difficulty, because our observation has been once laser is used, the tracheal wall gets very much thickened and the area of resection becomes much longer. The other thing is in your tracheoesophageal fistula cases that you showed, our main anxiety is leak from the esophagus...

Pathologies comprising more than half the length of the trachea are a challenge to the reconstructive surgeon. Innovative tracheal transplantation techniques aim to offer the patient a curative solution with a sustained improvement in quality of life. This review summarizes the authors’ experience with the rabbit as a versatile model for research regarding tracheal transplantation. Because of t...

We read with great interest the article of Anton-Pacheco et al. [1] in which they analyzed 19 cases with congenital tracheal stenosis. This single center study consisted of different groups of patients, classified to the severity and length of the tracheal stenosis. The authors described three different surgical techniques with an overall mortality rate of 21%. The rate of mortality in Anton-Pa...

Objectives: Donor airway ischemia is a signi®cant problem after tracheal replacement with homograft or lung transplantation. Omentopexy is the usual countermeasure to prevent or overcome the ischemia of the airway but this is frequently not suf®cient. This study was designed to investigate whether basic ®broblast growth factor (bFGF) can augment tracheal revascularization and its epithelial reg...

OBJECTIVE Acquired tracheal stenosis (ATS) is an unusual disease often secondary to prolonged mechanical trauma. Acquired tracheal stenosis pathogenesis involves inflammation and subsequent fibrosis with narrowing of the tracheal lumen. Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β) represents a pivotal factor in most fibrotic processes, and therefore a potential target in this context. The aim of this ...