Single-Center Experience of Tracheobronchoplasty for Tracheobronchomalacia: Perioperative Outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite an arduous hospital course with significant risk of severe complication, patients undergoing tracheobronchoplasty for severe tracheobronchomalacia have low risk of mortality and are discharged home directly in most cases.
PMID: 29684374 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - April 20, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Buitrago DH, Majid A, Alape DE, Wilson JL, Parikh M, Kent MS, Gangadharan SP Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research