In the current issue of the Journal, Wang and colleagues1 from China report their successful management of severe bronchomalacia of the left main bronchus in a 9-year-old girl who presented with wheezing and recurrent pulmonary infections. After failure of endoluminal stenting approaches, the patient underwent left posterolateral thoracotomy and placement of a custom-made 3-dimensional (3D) printed (3DP) polycaprolactone scaffold to suspend the outside of that bronchus on the inner surface of the scaffold.
In the current issue of the Journal, Wang and colleagues1 from China report their successful management of severe bronchomalacia of the left main bronchus in a 9-year-old girl who presented with wheezing and recurrent pulmonary infections. After failure of endoluminal stenting approaches, the patient underwent left posterolateral thoracotomy and placement of a custom-made 3-dimensional (3D) printed (3DP) polycaprolactone scaffold to suspend the outside of that bronchus on the inner surface of the scaffold.