• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1983.05a
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• pp.10.2-10
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• 1983

Tracheal stenosis induced from the various causes has still remained as a serious problem in the otolaryngologic field. There has been used the numerous methods in the treatment of the tracheal stenosis and the each case has required the therapeutic modality. Now, we report two cases of tracheal stenosis ; one case had been used the silicone T - tube in the tracheal stenosis after tracheostomy in 6 year - old child and the other one had been used the silicone tube stent with oral mucosa graft in the treatment of the tracheal narrowing due to inflammatory mass in 19 year - old male patient.

• Korean Journal of Bronchoesophagology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.40-44
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• 2007

Background and Objectives: Most of tracheal stenosis is resulted from longstanding endotracheal tube insertion. Treatments of tracheal stenosis are divided conservative and reconstructive treatment. The propose of this study was to evaluate the effect of prosthetic tracheal T-tube insertion on tracheal stenostic patients who can not be operated invasive surgery. Subjects and Method : Nine prosthetic tracheal T-tube insertion were studied from 9 patients from January 2002 to April 2007. The effect of silastic T-tube was analyzed according to the factors that were respiratory difficulty, oxygen saturation, phonation, aspiration and significant complications. Results: Four patients were good for respiration and no complication. But five patients occur various complications. A successful group did not have cartilagenous lesions but failed group had catilagenous lesions, infection and necrosis. Conclusion: A silastic T-tube insertion was good for palliative treatment in patients without catilagenous lesions.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.664-666
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• 1993

A technique for insertion of a long silicone T-tube in patient with critical stenosis and high-risk resection and primary anastomosis of long segment of the distal trachea is presented. It was not easy to insert a long T-tube by existing methods because of flexibility of a T-tube and tightness of stenosis. So we used a silastic endotracheal tube and guiding wire as stylet of a T-tube. During insertion, ventilation was normally maintained through the lumen of endotracheal tube. This provided rapid relief from airway obstruction and asphyxation and is a easy, safe and effective method to restore patency of the major airways.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1981.05a
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• pp.4.3-5
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• 1981

The Silicone tracheal T-tube was designed to maintain an adequate tracheal airway as well as to provide support in the stenotic reconstituted or reconstructed trachea. This report is our experiences with using silicone T-tube which were successfully used to two cases with extensive laryngotracheal trauma, and one case with decannulation difficulty for 9 months. Authors strongly believe that silicone T-tube is an excellent device out of consideration for our experienced cases, though many techniques have been applied for the treatments of tracheal problems.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1982.05a
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• pp.9.2-9
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• 1982

The incidence of decannulation difficulty included tracheal stenosis has markedly increased in recent years because of translaryngeal intubation and tracheostomy although advancing antibiotics and new treatment for these problems. Treatment has always been difficult but in mild cases, a new soft, flexible tracheal T-tube that designed to maintain an adequate tracheal airway as well as to provide support in the reconstructed trachea and in severe cases, transverse resection with subsquent end to end anastomosis has been used in recent years. Authors experienced 2 cases of tracheal stenosis and decannulation difficulty which developed after tracheostomy that was performed due to automobile accident and fall down respectively and using a silicone tracheal T-tube for 3 months good results were obtained. So authors reported with brief review of literatures.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.63-71
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• 2009

Background: The treatment of tracheal stenosis includes less invasive bronchoscopic intervention and more invasive segmental resection & anastomosis. Depending on the patient's clinical features, sometimes all these methods are inappropriate. Silicone T-tube stenting has recently been used as an alternative, safe management of tracheal stenosis. We studied the short term and Intermediate term results of using T-tubes in patients with tracheal stenosis, and this tracheal stenosis was caused by various underlying diseases. Material and Method: We retrospectively reviewed 57 patients with tracheal stenosis and who were treated with T-tubes between Jan 1997 and Apr 2007. Based on the patient's medical records and the imaging studies, we evaluated the clinical findings and status of T-tube removal. Result: There was no T-tube related morbidity or mortality in this series. On follow-up, one patient underwent sleeve resection and end-to-end anastomosis. The T-tube could be successfully removed from 13 patients (13/57, 22.8%) without additional interventions. For another four patients, a T-tube was again inserted after removal of the first T-tube due to tracheomalacia or recurrent stenosis. Four patients died of underlying disease and cancer. The patients' gender and previous tracheostomy significantly affected T-tube removal. By contrast, multiple logistic regression analysis identified gender as a predictor of successfully removing a T-tube. Gender (p=0.033) and previous tracheostomy (p=0.036) were the two factors for success or failure of T-tube removal. Conclusion: A T-tube provided reliable patency of a stenotic airway that was caused by any etiology. We have proven that using a T-tube is safe and effective therapy for patients with tracheal stenosis for the short term or the intermediate term.