In tracheobronchial stenosis, as any cause, productive cough, dyspnea, recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis and acute respiratory failure in serious case can be developed, so that the resection or dilatation of the stenotic regions are required.
Various modalities of therapy include surgical methods-resection and anstomosis, tracheal prostheses, tracheoplasty, bronchoscopic curettage, laser photoresection and cryotherapy, etc.-and non-surgical methods using bougies, expandable metallic
stents
and balloon catheters etc.
Mervyn D. Cohen has firstly described balloon dilatation in 31-month-old girl with narrowing of the upper part of the trachea and the origin of both right and left main-stem boronchi after resection of congenitally stenotic airway segments.
We experienced a case of balloon catheter dilatation in tracheal and left main-stem bronchial stenosis complicating endobronchial tuberculosis.l This procedure can be performed safely and effectively to alleviate the symptoms associated with
bronchial
stenosis, thus further studies should be accomplshed
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