Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy

BACKGROUND: Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is increasingly popular within intensive care units for patients who need prolonged ventilatory support. Significant complications are rare. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient suffered tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following this...

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Autores principales: Ho, Eu Chin, Kapila, Atul, Colquhoun-Flannery, William
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16135254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-5-6
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author Ho, Eu Chin
Kapila, Atul
Colquhoun-Flannery, William
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description BACKGROUND: Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is increasingly popular within intensive care units for patients who need prolonged ventilatory support. Significant complications are rare. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient suffered tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following this procedure. These complications are demonstrated in our accompanying video. CONCLUSION: Contrary to common beliefs, tracheal rings are commonly fractured during the PDT procedure. The consequent granulation can lead to tracheal stenosis and tracheomalacia.
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spelling pubmed-12421072005-10-06 Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy Ho, Eu Chin Kapila, Atul Colquhoun-Flannery, William BMC Ear Nose Throat Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is increasingly popular within intensive care units for patients who need prolonged ventilatory support. Significant complications are rare. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient suffered tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following this procedure. These complications are demonstrated in our accompanying video. CONCLUSION: Contrary to common beliefs, tracheal rings are commonly fractured during the PDT procedure. The consequent granulation can lead to tracheal stenosis and tracheomalacia. BioMed Central 2005-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC1242107/ /pubmed/16135254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-5-6 Text en Copyright © 2005 Ho et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ho, Eu Chin
Kapila, Atul
Colquhoun-Flannery, William
Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
title Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
title_full Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
title_fullStr Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
title_full_unstemmed Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
title_short Tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
title_sort tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16135254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-5-6
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