Laryngotracheal Complications in Intubated COVID-19 Patients

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, several emerging cases of laryngotracheal stenosis following prolonged intubation and tracheostomy are being reported. The patients’ pre-existing comorbidities, the disease itself and the pronation maneuvers increase the risk for endolaryngeal and tracheal damag...

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Autor principal: Sandu, Kishore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8165861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34104030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11795476211020590
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description During the current COVID-19 pandemic, several emerging cases of laryngotracheal stenosis following prolonged intubation and tracheostomy are being reported. The patients’ pre-existing comorbidities, the disease itself and the pronation maneuvers increase the risk for endolaryngeal and tracheal damage. In this commentary, we report 4 such patients with acquired severe laryngotracheal stenosis. We describe their airway lesions, the surgical treatment they received, and the outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-81658612021-06-07 Laryngotracheal Complications in Intubated COVID-19 Patients Sandu, Kishore Clin Med Insights Case Rep Case Report During the current COVID-19 pandemic, several emerging cases of laryngotracheal stenosis following prolonged intubation and tracheostomy are being reported. The patients’ pre-existing comorbidities, the disease itself and the pronation maneuvers increase the risk for endolaryngeal and tracheal damage. In this commentary, we report 4 such patients with acquired severe laryngotracheal stenosis. We describe their airway lesions, the surgical treatment they received, and the outcomes. SAGE Publications 2021-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8165861/ /pubmed/34104030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11795476211020590 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Laryngotracheal Complications in Intubated COVID-19 Patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8165861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34104030
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