Airway foreign body aspiration in children can lead to accidental death, due the itself or removal procedure. Depending on its location, of be challenging. Here, we present a case successful from left upper lobar bronchus via ventilating bronchoscopy with rigid bronchoscope and Fogarty arterial embolectomy catheter. Tracheobronchial bodies locations that are difficult reach forceps, an acute an...

Congenital fistulae between the tracheobronchial tree and oesophagus usually originate from the lower end of the trachea or right main bronchus. The case history is presented of a man in whom a fistula between the oesophagus and left main bronchus was not diagnosed until the age of 48.

Introduction / objectives Tracheobronchial tree colonization is considered an important risk factor for the development of ventilatorassociated pneumonia (VAP). The aim of the present study was to examine microbiologically the respiratory tract flora of mechanically ventilated patients hospitalized in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of our institution for the detection of colonization with importa...

Bronchogenic cysts arise from an abnormal budding of the ventral diverticulum of the foregut or the tracheobronchial tree, during embryogenesis. Intrapericardial cysts are rare, accounting for 27% of bronchogenic cysts. In this case report, we present a young woman with a symptomatic intrapericardial bronchogenic cyst compressing the superior vena cava. The cyst was resected via median sternoto...

mediastinal teratomas are usually asymptomatic tumors, located most commonly in the anterior mediastinum. very rarely, such tumors may rupture into the tracheobronchial tree, lung, pleura or pericardium. computed tomography (ct) is helpful in the diagnosis and differentiation of ruptured and unruptured tumors. we report a case of ruptured anterior mediastinal teratoma in a 20-year-old female pr...

Tracheobronchial amyloidosis is an infrequent disease characterized by the deposition of proteinaceous material in the tracheobronchial tree. The disease generally has a high morbidity and variable mortality in the years following diagnosis. There is no consensus on the optimal treatment. We report a case of a 63-year-old woman who presented with a diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis associate...

Respiratory involvement with amyloidosis typically involves the tracheobronchial tree or lung parenchyma. We describe a patient with systemic amyloidosis who was respirator-dependent because of extensive amyloid infiltration of the diaphragm, with no evidence of other pulmonary amyloidosis. Diaphragmatic myopathy from amyloid should be considered in respiratory failure in amyloidosis.

A surface active layer consisting mainly of phospholipids lines the human conducting airways. Dysfunction of this layer could play a role in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive airway diseases like asthma and chronic bronchitis. Replacement therapy with exogenous surfactants is being considered in such conditions. The relationship between surfactants and mucus viscosity would be important f...

Address for Correspondence: Dr.Venkatesh G Kamath, MBBS, MD Anatomy, Assistant Professor, Yenepoya Medical College, Deralakatte, Mangalore, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1&2 Assistant Professor, 3 Lecturer, 4 Professor & HOD. Department of Anatomy, Yenepoya Medical College, Deralakatte, Mangalore, India. Background: The trac...

Tracheobronchial amyloidosis is an infrequent disease characterized by the deposition of proteinaceous material in the tracheobronchial tree. The disease generally has a high morbidity and variable mortality in the years following diagnosis. There is no consensus on the optimal treatment. We report a case of a 63-year-old woman who presented with a diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis associate...