A 42-year-old male presented with worsening gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms and cough. The clinical symptoms during the early course of illness were striking for aspiration pneumonia. He was given a prescription of proton pump inhibitors and antibiotics. Rapid decline in the clinical condition with worsening respiratory status was noted. Worsening symptoms of fever, cough, and chest pa...

A 52-year-old woman presented to the emergency department in February 2012 with a productive cough of 2 months duration and recurrent pneumonia. The patient had a history of recurrent bacterial pneumonias and stage IIIC squamous cell esophageal cancer that was managed with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Chest imaging (panel A) revealed a right lower lobe infiltrate consistent with a possible ea...

An 84-year-old man with dysphagia was referred to our hospital for examination. The patient’s medical history included endoscopic submucosal dissection for superficial esophageal cancer 2 years previously. Gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed an esophageal foreign body, a pressthrough pack (PTP) (Fig. 1A). The PTP was successfully removed endoscopically. After extraction of the PTP, the patient ...

A 12-year-old girl with H-type tracheoesophageal fistula is presented. The fistula was proven by bronchoscopic, oesophageoscopic and radiographic (with contrast medium) studies. As a sucking child the girl was operated, but there is no medical documentation (the girl is a displaced person). The question remains whether it is a primary or recurrent fistula.

Introduction: Isolated congenital tracheoesophageal fistula is a very rare malformation with an incidence of 1 in 50.000-80.000 births. In most of the cases this anomaly is detected in the first year of life because of the suggestive symptoms, but sometimes the diagnosis is delayed even until adulthood. Aim: The purpose of this paper is to analyse clinical, imagistic and therapeutic sights of t...

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Tracheoesophageal fistulas can arise from both benign and malignant conditions, and often present clinically as increased secretions, coughing with or without hypoxia after swallowing, and recurrent aspiration pneumonia. We describe a tracheoesophageal fistula in a post-chemotherapy lymphoma patient that was closed with use of an over-the-scope Aponos clip.

UNLABELLED We report a case of a 59-year-old male who experienced tracheoesophageal fistula and grade IV subglottic stenosis after percutaneous dilation tracheotomy. Although percutaneous tracheotomy is considered a safe procedure that is often performed in the intensive care unit setting, it is not without complications. While subglottic stenosis and tracheoesophageal fistula are known complic...

A 57-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis (MG), who had experienced a myasthenic crisis, complained of coughing while drinking. At first, this appeared to be a sequela of the myasthenic crisis. However, after further investigation, the problem was identified as a tracheoesophageal fistula, a complication of tracheostomy. Here, we describe this special case in the hope that we can improve diagn...

BACKGROUND The vertebral defect, anal atresia, cardiac defect, tracheoesophageal fistula/esophageal atresia, renal defect, and limb defect association and Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome are rare conditions. We aimed to present two cases with the vertebral defect, anal atresia, cardiac defect, tracheoesophageal fistula/esophageal atresia, renal defect, and limb defect association and Ma...