To investigate the role of tracheal wall injury in the development of benign airway stenosis in rabbits. Prospective study. We injured the tracheal walls of 28 New Zealand white rabbits using four ...

Postintubation tracheal stenosis is a complication of endotracheal intubation. The pathological mechanism and risk factors for endotracheal intubation-induced tracheal stenosis remain not fully ...

Management of tracheal stenosis in a child is complex, and patients with severe tracheal stenosis often require tracheal replacement. There is no ideal method to reproduce the biomechanical properties ...

Evidence on the safety of endoscopic balloon dilation for subglottic or tracheal stenosis is adequate. The most serious complication related to the procedure, independent of age, is tracheal ...

Endotracheal intubation and tracheotomy are widely used in the hospital setting for elective surgery and in cases of serious illness or critical injury. In rare instances the procedures result in the ...

Jaipur: Ventilators are "life-support" machines but it may cause narrowing of trachea, the condition known as post intubation tracheal stenosis (PITS). One such case was reported in Sawai Man Singh ...

Subglottic stenosis (SGS) is a condition in which the airway below the subglottis and above the trachea narrows. It can be either congenital or acquired. Subglottic stenosis is a condition that can ...

New research is poised to drastically improve the use of tracheal stents for children with airway obstruction. Researchers demonstrate for the first time the successful use of a completely ...

Researchers created a tissue-engineered cartilage graft to enlarge narrowed pediatric airways in subglottic stenosis. The ...

Early palliative care: Recognizing the patient in need of palliative care and proactive palliative care planning with the GP as coordinator—An RCT. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ...