• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1993.05a
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• pp.80-80
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• 1993

Airway stenosis in children may be classified into congenital and acquired forms. The incidence of acquired forms is increasing mainly due to increase in prolonged intubation and trauma. In congenital stenosis with significantly compromised airway, the patient may be tracheotomized and allowed some waiting period while expecting spontaneous resolution as the child grows. However, with this treatment policy, there is a considerably higher mortality and morbidity for the acquired disease as to often warrant surgical reconstruction. The authors reviewed the medical records of 22 pediatric patients under the age of 15 who have had airway reconstruction at the authors' department from the beginning of January, 1988 through the end of December, 1992. The prognosis was analyzed in light of the etiology, site and severity of the stenosis, and the type of reconstructive measures.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.675-680
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• 1999

We describe here two cases of anterior tracheoplasty utilizing an autologous pericardial patch. One patient was a 9 year-old female who had a congenital long tracheal stenosis associated with major vascular anomalies including pulmonary artery sling. One-stage correction was done under the support of an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation system. She required a prolonged ventilation support for 10 days postoperatively until the implanted pericardium was fixed to the mediastinal structures. The other patient was a 8 year-old male who had acquired tracheal stenosis following a complicated tracheostomy. By applying additional support over the pericardial patch with the costal cartilage, an endotracheal tube could be removed immediately after the operation. Both patients have been doing well in a postoperative follow-up of over a year, and there have been evidences of growth in the reconstructed trachea.