Fiorelli Alfonso, Bove Mary, Noro Antonio, Iuorio Angela, Santini Mario, Ferraro Fausto
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Piazza Miraglia, 2, 80138, Naples, Italy.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Jun;68(6):655-658. doi: 10.1007/s11748-020-01311-8. Epub 2020 Feb 11.
We reported a new minimally invasive procedure to treat tracheal stenosis below tracheostomy tube using standard Ciaglia Blue Dolphin kit for percutaneous tracheostomy. Under endoscopic view, the Dolphin kit was inserted through the stoma into the stenosis; the balloon was inflated until a sufficient tracheal diameter was obtained; then, a longer tracheostomy tube was inserted through the stenosis and the distal tip placed near the carina. This procedure was succesfully applied in seven patients.