Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report

Tracheal agenesis is a rare congenital condition. It usually presents as an unexpected emergency during resuscitation of a newborn in the delivery room. The condition is almost always fatal in the resuscitation phase, but also when the neonate survives the long term prognosis remains poor. We presen...

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Autores principales: Dijkman, Koen P, Andriessen, Peter, van Lijnschoten, Gesina, Halbertsma, Feico J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829934
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7212
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author Dijkman, Koen P
Andriessen, Peter
van Lijnschoten, Gesina
Halbertsma, Feico J
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van Lijnschoten, Gesina
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description Tracheal agenesis is a rare congenital condition. It usually presents as an unexpected emergency during resuscitation of a newborn in the delivery room. The condition is almost always fatal in the resuscitation phase, but also when the neonate survives the long term prognosis remains poor. We present a case of tracheal agenesis, discuss its presenting symptoms and possibilities for antenatal diagnosis and review the therapeutic options.
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spelling pubmed-27400922009-10-14 Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report Dijkman, Koen P Andriessen, Peter van Lijnschoten, Gesina Halbertsma, Feico J Cases J Case report Tracheal agenesis is a rare congenital condition. It usually presents as an unexpected emergency during resuscitation of a newborn in the delivery room. The condition is almost always fatal in the resuscitation phase, but also when the neonate survives the long term prognosis remains poor. We present a case of tracheal agenesis, discuss its presenting symptoms and possibilities for antenatal diagnosis and review the therapeutic options. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2740092/ /pubmed/19829934 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7212 Text en © 2009 Dijkman et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dijkman, Koen P
Andriessen, Peter
van Lijnschoten, Gesina
Halbertsma, Feico J
Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report
title Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report
title_full Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report
title_fullStr Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report
title_short Failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report
title_sort failed resuscitation of a newborn due to congenital tracheal agenesis: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829934
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7212
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