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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-11-10
pubmed:abstractText
Bronchoscopic balloon dilatation (BBD) using angioplasty balloon catheters has been employed successfully in the treatment of tracheobronchial stenoses in children and has worked with variable success in adults with bronchial stenosis. In adults with tracheal stenosis, BBD only has been reported anecdotally. In this study, experience with BBD using a valvuloplasty balloon catheter in the combined treatment (with Nd-YAG laser photoresection and stenting) of severe benign postintubation tracheal stenoses in three adults is delineated. BBD was particularly successful in establishing tracheal patency when laser photoresection was contraindicated or was too dangerous; BBD allowed easy insertion of tracheal stents and the "opening" of folded silicone stents. BBD is a simple, inexpensive, safe, and efficient adjunct in the combined treatment of severe postintubation rigid tracheal stenosis in selected adults.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0012-3692
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
112
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1136-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Aluminum Silicates, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Angioplasty, Balloon, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Balloon Dilation, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Bronchoscopy, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Combined Modality Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Equipment Design, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Foreign-Body Migration, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Intubation, Intratracheal, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Laser Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Neodymium, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Recurrence, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Respiration, Artificial, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Silicones, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Stents, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Tracheal Stenosis, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Tracheostomy, pubmed-meshheading:9377935-Yttrium
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Bronchoscopic balloon dilatation in the combined management of postintubation stenosis of the trachea in adults.
pubmed:affiliation
Respiratory Division, Academic Hospital AZ-VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports