Sudden Respiratory Failure due to Tracheobronchomalacia by Relapsing Polychondritis, Successfully Rescued by Multiple Metallic Stenting and Tracheostomy

Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare systemic autoimmune disease that affects cartilaginous structures. RP causes tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) by affecting the bronchial cartilage. TBM is a fatal condition characterized by excessive weakening of the walls of the trachea and bronchi. We herein repo...

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Autores principales: Oryoji, Daisuke, Ono, Nobuyuki, Himeji, Daisuke, Yoshihiro, Kyoko, Kai, Yasufumi, Matsuda, Motohiro, Tsukamoto, Hiroshi, Ueda, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021454
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8778-16

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