Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (Feb 2023)
Multimodality Endoscopic Approach for Benign Central Airway Stenosis in Pediatric Tuberculosis: A Case Report
Abstract
Jinpei Li,1 Yu Zhou,2 Zhichao Liu,3 Taosheng Ye1 1Department of Respiratory Endoscopy, The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518000, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Tuberculosis, Public Health Clinical Center of Chengdu, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610011, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Pulmonary Medicine & Tuberculosis, The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518000, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Taosheng Ye, Email [email protected]: More children are benefitting from the wide application of bronchoscopy as interventional therapy to complications with airway involvement. We present the case of an 11-year-old boy with tracheobronchial tuberculosis complicated by severe obstruction in the left main bronchus. Early interventional endoscopic balloon dilation and cryoablation were adopted as adjunct therapy to his anti-tuberculosis treatment and had shown satisfying treatment outcomes.Keywords: pediatric, tuberculosis, balloon dilation procedure, bronchoscopy, interventional therapy
