Anesthetic Experience of Patients with a Congenital Tracheal Bronchus: A report of two cases.
10.4097/kjae.2006.51.5.638
- Author:
Jin Wook CHA
1
;
Sang Hyun KWAK
;
Seok Jai KIM
;
Chang Mo KIM
;
Sung Tae JEONG
;
Hong Beom BAE
;
Kyung Yeon YOO
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea. kyyoo@chonnam.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
airway obstruction;
endotracheal intubation;
tracheal bronchus
- MeSH:
Airway Obstruction;
Anesthesia;
Anesthesia, General;
Anoxia;
Bronchi*;
Humans;
Intubation, Intratracheal;
Pulmonary Atelectasis;
Trachea
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
2006;51(5):638-640
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A tracheal bronchus is an aberrant, accessory or ectopic bronchus arising almost always from the right lateral wall of the trachea at the level less than 2 cm above the carina. An endotracheal or endobronchial tube can obstruct or migrate into a tracheal bronchus, resulting in pulmonary atelectasis, hypoxemia, or both during general anesthesia. We report two patients in whom the anomalous tracheal bronchus had been surgically resected under general anesthesia. The anomaly was identified before surgery in each patient and anesthesia was uneventful.
