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BMJ Case Rep
March 2021
Critical Care, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK.
Tracheoarterial fistula is a complication of tracheostomy with a high associated mortality. A 25-year-old male patient with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy underwent a percutaneous tracheostomy using the single tapered dilator (Blue Rhino) technique to facilitate weaning from mechanical ventilation. Nine weeks after the procedure, he developed significant upper airway bleeding, leading to haemodynamic instability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Vasc Interv Radiol
July 2020
Division of Vascular Interventional Radiology, Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Am Surg
September 2016
Atlanta Cancer Research and Education Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Case Rep Otolaryngol
December 2015
University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
We report the case of a 25-year-old woman who developed a tracheocarotid fistula secondary to an infected endovascular stent placed in the right carotid artery after the patient experienced hemorrhage on her first tracheostomy change. The patient originally had the tracheostomy placed at an outside hospital in September 2014, due to prolonged intubation after a motor vehicle accident. The patient presented to the otolaryngology service with an acute tracheal hemorrhage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQJM
March 2016
Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, No.1, Yida Road, Jiao-su Village, Yan-chao District, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan email:
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