tracheomalacia

It is used to treat severe tracheomalacia or tracheal compression.

In adults, tracheomalacia is generally caused by injury or by smoking.

However, the preoperative degree of tracheomalacia has an important impact on postoperative recovery.

Bronchoscopy can be useful in internally assessing the degree of tracheomalacia.

A variety of treatments for tracheomalacia associated with esophageal atresia are available.

These processes are exaggerated in tracheomalacia, leading to airway collapse on expiration.

Several conditions may result from relapsing polychondritis, including type 3 tracheomalacia and vasculitis.

Tracheomalacia: The trachea is soft and floppy rather than rigid, usually due to a birth defect.

If the connective nerve tissues in the trachea degenerate it causes tracheomalacia.

The usual symptom of tracheomalacia is expiratory stridor or laryngeal crow.

Benjamin, B Tracheomalacia in infants and children.

Scheduled repair soon after birth in symptomatic patients can relieve tracheal compression early and therefore potentially prevent the development of severe tracheomalacia.

Tracheomalacia (weakening of the tracheal cartilage)

Austin, J, Ali, T Tracheomalacia and Bronchomalacia in children: pathophysiology, assessment, treatment and anaesthesia management.

McNamara, VM, Crabbe, DC Tracheomalacia.