Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study

Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study

To set the foundation for developing a centre for airway reconstruction, we performed a retrospective database review of patients operated at a tertiary-care university hospital. Over the past 3-year period from 2004 onwards, five paediatric cases of airway reconstruction procedures were perfor...

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Main Authors: Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin, Sheikh Ab. Hamid, Suzina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Malaysian Medical Associations 2008
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RF Otorhinolaryngology
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/2674/
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spelling iium-26742013-01-17T06:55:41Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2674/ Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin Sheikh Ab. Hamid, Suzina RF Otorhinolaryngology To set the foundation for developing a centre for airway reconstruction, we performed a retrospective database review of patients operated at a tertiary-care university hospital. Over the past 3-year period from 2004 onwards, five paediatric cases of airway reconstruction procedures were performed. All cases had a two stages laryngotracheal reconstruction (TSLTR) for laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS). All patients were children below 15 years and the mean age was 9 years. Only one patient had a Grade IV Myer-Cotton1 stenosis, the rest all had Grade III stenosis. Three out of four of the Grade III stenosis patients were successfully decannulated within one year, the other one died of causes unrelated to LTS. The grade IV patient was still under follow up and surgery was done only recently. This paper highlights the complexity of managing LTS in the paediatric age group and recommends the use of LTR with rib graft as a choice for the management of LTS. Malaysian Medical Associations 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2674/1/Paediatric_Airway_Reconstruction.pdf Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin and Sheikh Ab. Hamid, Suzina (2008) Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study. Medical Journal of Malaysia, 63 (5). pp. 369-372. ISSN 0300-5283 http://www.e-mjm.org/2008/v63n5/Paediatric_Airway_Reconstruction.pdf
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Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin
Sheikh Ab. Hamid, Suzina
Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study
description To set the foundation for developing a centre for airway reconstruction, we performed a retrospective database review of patients operated at a tertiary-care university hospital. Over the past 3-year period from 2004 onwards, five paediatric cases of airway reconstruction procedures were performed. All cases had a two stages laryngotracheal reconstruction (TSLTR) for laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS). All patients were children below 15 years and the mean age was 9 years. Only one patient had a Grade IV Myer-Cotton1 stenosis, the rest all had Grade III stenosis. Three out of four of the Grade III stenosis patients were successfully decannulated within one year, the other one died of causes unrelated to LTS. The grade IV patient was still under follow up and surgery was done only recently. This paper highlights the complexity of managing LTS in the paediatric age group and recommends the use of LTR with rib graft as a choice for the management of LTS.
format Article
author Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin
Sheikh Ab. Hamid, Suzina
author_facet Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin
Sheikh Ab. Hamid, Suzina
author_sort Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin
title Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study
title_short Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study
title_full Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study
title_fullStr Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study
title_full_unstemmed Paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study
title_sort paediatric airway reconstruction: a preliminary study
publisher Malaysian Medical Associations
publishDate 2008
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/2674/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2674/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2674/1/Paediatric_Airway_Reconstruction.pdf
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