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bronchoplasty
Indications:
- balloon bronchoplasty involves the use of balloons for symptomatic airway stenosis (airway obstruction), resulting from
- endotracheal intubation
- lower respiratory tract infection
- radiation
- *malignancy
- sarcoidosis
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- inhalational injury
- idiopathic stenosis
Procedure:
- bronchoscopy with protected airway
- special balloons with various diameters are filled with saline with a pressure-measuring syringe (6-12 atmospheres in adults, inflation diameter 4 -20 mm. length of 4 -8 cm)
- each dilation is maintained for 15-60 s & repeated 2-3 times, with sequentially larger-diameter balloons
General
cardiothoracic surgery
References
- Medscape Oncology
Airway Interventions in the Tracheobronchial Tree:
Balloon Bronchoplasty
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/579505_9