作者
Dirk Schramm, Nadine Freitag, Karsten Kötz, Ignacio Iglesias‐Serrano, Mario Culebras‐Amigo, Vladimir Koblizek, Santiago Pérez‐Tarazona, Enrique Cases Viedma, JT Srikanta, Peter Durdik, Kaid Darwiche, Sune Rubak, Patrick Stafler
发表日期
2022/11
期刊
Respirology
卷号
27
期号
11
页码范围
966-974
出版商
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
简介
Background and objective
Cryotherapy in interventional bronchoscopy is a new treatment modality, which has recently been made available for the paediatric airway. Lack of experience and safety concerns have led to hesitant adaptation. The aim of this study was to assess indications, success rates and complications of airway cryotherapy in children.
Methods
Bronchoscopists from medical centre performing cryotherapy in patients between 0 and 18 years were invited to participate in a prospective study based on an online questionnaire. Patient and participant data were collected between June 2020 and June 2021.
Results
A total of 69 cryotherapy procedures were performed in 57 patients a for three main indications: Biopsy (30), restoration of airway patency (23) and foreign body aspiration (16). The overall success rate was 93%, the remaining 7% were performed for foreign body removal and required a …
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