Use of a covered self-expanding metal airway stent for severe dynamic collapse within a bronchial aortic graft conduit in a post-lung transplant patient

Abstract

We present a novel case in which a self-expanding, covered metal airway stent was utilized for severe dynamic collapse within a cadaveric aortic bronchial graft conduit in a post-lung transplant recipient with thoracic situs inversus.

Keywords

• Airway stent
• Bronchoscopy
• Transplant complications
• Bronchomalacia
• Interventional pulmonology