Congenital - Trachea
Reoperation to correct unsuccessful vascular ring and vascular decompression surgery
Although most children do well after operations to relieve vascular compression of the esophagus and airway, many will have persistent/recurrent symptoms. We review our surgical experience using a customized approach to correct various etiologies of failure after vascular ring/decompression surgery.Tracheal surgery for airway anomalies associated with increased mortality in pediatric patients undergoing heart surgery: Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database analysis
Airway anomalies are common in children with cardiac disease but with an unquantified impact on outcomes. We sought to define the association between airway anomalies and tracheal surgery with cardiac surgery outcomes using the Society of Thoracic Surgery Congenital Heart Surgery Database.Preclinical evaluation of a pediatric airway stent for tracheobronchomalacia
We sought to demonstrate in an animal model that helical stents made from a nickel titanium alloy called nitinol (NiTi) and designed for malacic airways could be delivered and removed without significant trauma while minimally impeding mucus clearance during the period of implantation.Treatment of bronchomalacia using three-dimensional printed polycaprolactone scaffold in a pediatric patient
Bronchomalacia, a weakness of the bronchus due to the reduction and/or atrophy of the longitudinal elastic fibers or impaired cartilage integrity, is a rare respiratory disease in children. Green and colleagues1,2 first used a 3-dimensional printed (3DP) polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffold to suspend the malacic bronchus and achieved excellent therapeutic results. However, few cases have been reported on the application of this technology or the clinical features of scaffold in vivo. Herein, a pediatric patient with left mainstem bronchomalacia was cured using the 3DP PCL scaffold technique.
