Abstract
Objectives
Surgical reconstruction is commonly recommended for the treatment of tuberculous airway stenosis. The clinical conditions underlying tuberculous airway stenosis often involve both cicatricial stenosis and malacia. Surgical reconstruction alone may not improve the respiratory symptoms of patients with both types of airway stenosis. This study retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent surgical reconstruction for tuberculous airway stenosis to investigate the most appropriate treatment for this complicated condition.
Methods
Twelve patients with tuberculous airway stenosis underwent surgical reconstruction at our institute from January 2003 to December 2013. The clinical courses of these patients were retrospectively reviewed.
Results
The 12 patients were 2 men and 10 women with a mean age of 36 years (range 17–61 years). The site of stenosis was the left main bronchus in six patients, trachea in four patients, and right main bronchus in two patients. The procedure performed was sleeve lobectomy in five patients, bronchial resection in four patients, and tracheal resection in three patients. Additional airway stenting was performed in two patients with concomitant malacia of the lower trachea. The performance status and Hugh–Jones classification improved postoperatively in all patients. The forced expiratory volume in 1 s as a percent of forced vital capacity and percent of forced expiratory volume in 1 s improved significantly.
Conclusion
Surgical reconstruction is an acceptable treatment for tuberculous airway stenosis. Additional airway stenting may be needed in patients with symptomatic malacia.
Similar content being viewed by others
Abbreviations
- FEV1.0%:
-
Forced expiratory volume in 1 s as a percent of forced vital capacity
- %FEV1.0:
-
Percent of forced expiratory volume in 1 s
- %VC:
-
Percent of vital capacity
- %FVC:
-
Percent of forced expiratory volume
References
Low SY, Hsu A, Eng P. Interventional bronchoscopy for tuberculous tracheobronchial stenosis. Eur Respir J. 2004;24:345–7.
Shitrit D, Kuchuk M, Zismanov V, Rahman NA, Amital A, Kramer MR. Bronchoscopic balloon dilatation of tracheobronchial stenosis: long-term follow-up. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2010;38:198–202.
Kato R, Kakizaki T, Hangai N, Sawafuji M, Yamamoto T, Kobayashi T, et al. Bronchoplastic procedures for tuberculous bronchial stenosis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1993;106:1118–21.
Hsu HS, Hsu WH, Huang BS, Huang MH. Scand Cardiovasc J. 1997;31:79–82.
Watanabe Y, Murakami S, Oda M, Hayashi Y, Ohta Y, Shimizu J, et al. Treatment of bronchial stricture due to endobronchial tuberculosis. World J Surg. 1997;21:480–7.
Iwai K, Shiroishi Y, Nkajima Y. Histopathology of atenotic bronchial tuberculosis. J Jpn Soc Respir Endoscopy. 2001;23:312–9.
Jokinen K, Palva T, Sutinen S, Nuutinen J. Acquired tracheobronchomalacia. Ann Clin Res. 1977;9:52–7.
Nam HS, Um SW, Koh WJ, Suh GY, Chung MP, Kwon OJ, et al. Clinical application of the natural Y stent in the management of benign carinal stenosis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2009;88:432–9.
Lim SY, Park HK, Jeon K, Um SW, Koh WJ, Suh GY, et al. Factors predicting outcome following airway stenting for post-tuberculosis tracheobronchial stenosis. Respirology. 2011;16:959–64.
Ryu YJ, Kim H, Yu CM, Choi JC, Kwon YS, Kwon OJ. Use of silicone stents for the management of post-tuberculosis tracheobronchial stenosis. Eur Respir J. 2006;28:1029–35.
Wright CD, Grillo HC, Hammoud ZT, Wain JC, Gaissert HA, Zaydfudim V, et al. Tracheoplasty for expiratory collapse of central airways. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005;80:259–66.
Husain SA, Finch D, Ahmed M, Morgan A, Hetzel MR. Long-term follow-up of ultraflex metallic stents in benign and malignant central airway obstruction. Ann Thorac Surg. 2007;83:1251–6.
Conflict of interest
Takuma Tsukioka and other co-authors have no conflict of interest.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Tsukioka, T., Takahama, M., Nakajima, R. et al. Surgical reconstruction for tuberculous airway stenosis: management for patients with concomitant tracheal malacia. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 63, 379–385 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-015-0536-9
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-015-0536-9