Initial experience with a new biodegradable airway stent in children: Is this the stent we were waiting for?

Objective: To report our experience with a new type of biodegradable airway stent in the setting of severe tracheobronchial obstruction in children.

Design And Methodology: We conducted a retrospective and prospective (since June 2014) study of pediatric patients with severe airway obstruction treated with biodegradable stents in our institution between 2012 and 2015. The following data were collected: demographics, indication for stenting, bronchoscopic findings, insertion technique complications, clinical outcome, stent related complications, re-stenting, and time of follow-up.

[Rectocolonic plasty using mechanical stapler as a surgical solution in complications of megacolon].

Hirschsprung's disease surgically treated with Duhamel's technique in which no mechanical suture has been used, usually presents, as main complication, cronic constipation, due to fecalomas in the rectal pouch. In our experience (30 cases plus four patients sent to our hospital for reintervention), this complication is not present when mechanical suture is introduced to the Duhamel's Technique. This allows us to assure that perineal rectocoloplasty, with auto-suture material is a precise optional treatment, with excellent results and allows the chance of not going through laparotomy in those cases that require reintervention.

Apple peel small bowel. A review of twelve cases.

This is a review of 12 cases with apple peel small bowel with agenesis of the dorsal mesentery and intestinal atresia, 11 of them jejunal and 1 duodenal in type who were treated at the Clinica Infantil "La Paz" Madrid over a period of ten years (1969--1979). The associated anomalies, the surgical treatment and the cause of death as well as the etiology and pathogenesis of this malformation are discussed.