Central Airway Obstruction Treated with Rigid Bronchoscopy

Jeffrey Panting-Crespo Robert Maximos, Michael Napolitano Kyongjune Benjamin Lee, Sheena Chen and Gregory D Trachiotis

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Department of Surgery, George Washington University, USA
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, George Washington University, USA

^*Correspondance to: Gregory D. Trachiotis 

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Abstract:

Central Airway Obstruction (CAO) is a pervasive issue across subspecialties. Management is dependent on factors such as patient age, comorbidities, surgical risk, and pathology and disease involvement. If untreated, death from respiratory failure is common. Rigid Bronchoscopy is an increasingly used, minimally invasive alternative to managing CAO. We present a case series of poor surgical candidates with a mixed pathology of central airway obstruction managed by rigid bronchoscopy techniques.

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Panting-Crespo J, Maximos R, Napolitano M, Lee KB, Chen S, Trachiotis GD. Central Airway Obstruction Treated with Rigid Bronchoscopy. World J Surg Surgical Res. 2019; 2: 1162..