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Intensive care in cases with thoracic and extrathoracic malignant solid tumours: Indications and survival
(Hellenic Thoracic Society and amp, Hellenic Bronchologic Society, 2015)
AIM: The patients with thoracic and extra-thoracic solid organ tumours hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) were retrospectively analyzed and the effects of their ICU stays on survival rates were investigated. ...
Tracheal laceration due to elective intubation and its treatment with endotracheal stenting
(Aves Yayıncılık, 2015)
Tracheal laceration as a result of elective intubation is a rarely seen complication with a high mortality. An eighty-one years old, female patient who was followed in the intensive care unit and treated with mechanical ...
Bronchoscopic treatment in the management of benign tracheal stenosis: Choices for simple and complex tracheal stenosis
(Elsevier, 2016)
Background:Bronchoscopic treatment is 1 of the treatment choices for both palliative and definitive treatment of benign tracheal stenosis. There is no consensus on the management of these patients, however, especially ...
Characteristics of active tuberculosis patients requiring ıntensive care monitoring and factors affecting mortality
(The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2016)
Background: One to three percent of cases of acute tuberculosis (TB) require monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU). The purpose of this study is to establish and determine the mortality rate and discuss the causes ...
Tracheomediastinal fistula in a patient with lung adenocarcinoma and its treatment with argon plasma coagulation: a case report.
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2014)
Tracheomediastinal fistula is a rare complication that occurs during the course of lung cancer. The fistula connects the airways to the mediastinum and is often associated with lymphoma. Clinical data on tracheomediastinal ...
The management of near-fatal hemoptysis with left secondary carinal y stent.
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
Abstract Massive hemoptysis can be a life threatening condition and needs urgent treatment in lung cancer. In the fiberoptic bronchoscopy of a fifty-two-year-old who was admitted with hemoptysis, left upper lobe upper ...
Pneumomediastinum, subcutaneous emphysema, and tracheal tear in the early postoperative period of spinal surgery in a paraplegic achondroplastic dwarf
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
Achondroplasia was first described in 1878 and is the most common form of human skeletal dysplasia. Spinal manifestations include thoracolumbar kyphosis, foramen magnum, and spinal stenosis. Progressive kyphosis can result ...
Tracheomalacia treatment using a large-diameter, custom-made airway stent in a case with mounier-kuhn syndrome.
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome (MKS) is a rare congenital disease that presents with abnormal enlargement in the central airways. In MKS, tracheomegaly is accompanied by difficulty in expelling recurrent lung infections and ...
Therapeutic bronchoscopic interventions for malignant airway obstruction: A retrospective study from experience on 547 patients.
(Lippincott, Williams&Wilkins, 2016)
There is no definitive consensus about the factors affecting the choice of interventional bronchoscopy in the management of malignant airway obstruction. The present study defines the choice of the interventional bronchoscopic ...
Is silicone stent insertion a clinically useful option for tracheobronchomalacia?
(TUBİTAK, 2016)
Background/aim: Tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) leads to the obstruction of expiratory airflow and interference with secretion clearance. Stabilization of the airway wall using a silicon stent or laser coagulation of the ...
