Soo Alan, Aziz Rasheed, Buckley Mella, Young Vincent
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Crest Directorate, St James's Hospital, James Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2009 Sep;9(3):530-1. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2009.205591. Epub 2009 Jun 2.
Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a systemic vasculitic condition that commonly affects the lung and kidneys. With improvement in medical therapy, airway complications are increasingly encountered and are difficult to manage. Here, we present a case whereby a patient presenting with airway complication is successfully treated with surgery.