Reconstruction of Tracheal Stenosis Following Tracheostomy: One Case Report

기관절개술후에 발생한 기관협착증 수술치험 1예

For the treatment of acute respiratory failure and emergency care of an urgent patient, tracheostomy in itself may have been a life saving procedure. But, among the variable complications following tracheostomy, the tracheal stenosis gives serious clinical manifestation which can only be corrected by surgical intervention in many occasions. At the Dept. of thoracic surgery, CAFGH, we have experienced one case of tracheal stenosis following tracheostomy for assisted ventilation. Tracheogram showed a 2.5 cm segmental narrowing 5 cm below the tracheostoma. Before recon-struction, we tried to dilate the stenotic segment for about 2 months, but the result was not satisfactory to relieve dyspnea. So, we resected the narrowed segment and tracheal reconstruction was performed with an excellent result in postoperative periods till now.