Acute Airway Obstruction and Cardiopulmonary Arrest due to Tracheomalacia Caused by Megaesophagus Compression Secondary to Achalasia

We report the case of an 80-year-old woman who presented one episode of cardiopulmonary arrest and two episodes of acute airway obstruction. We found in this patient the presence of tracheomalacia caused by megaesophagus compression secondary to achalasia probably responsible for episodes of acute a...

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Autores principales: Aubignat, Mickael, Roger, Pierre-Alexandre, Dernoncourt, Amandine, Salle, Valery, Smail, Amar, Gourguechon, Clement, Schmidt, Jean, Duhaut, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7232722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32455044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/5946985
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Sumario:We report the case of an 80-year-old woman who presented one episode of cardiopulmonary arrest and two episodes of acute airway obstruction. We found in this patient the presence of tracheomalacia caused by megaesophagus compression secondary to achalasia probably responsible for episodes of acute airway obstruction and cardiopulmonary arrest.

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