Abstract
In the expanding era of interventional medicine, tracheo-bronchial stenting has emerged as an exigent procedure with new ray of hope. The most common indications for stenting are to minimise extrinsic airway compression from mass effect, maintain airway patency due to intrinsic obstruction or treat significant nonmalignant airway narrowing or fistula. It plays an important role as a bridge to additional tumor-specific therapies, especially in chemoradiotherapy-naïve patients. Our patient, a 66-year-old lady with history of recurrent oesphageal carcinoma treated with chemotherapy, was suffering from increasing breathlessness with presence of stridor. Tracheo-bronchial stenting (Y-stenting) was done successfully in this patient to relieve her tracheal stenosis as observed in bronchoscopy. We report this case as it highlights the first ever Y-stenting in Bangladesh, might cultivate more feasibilty towards such intervention in different centres. Bangladesh J Medicine 2024; 35: 218-220
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