Abstract
Objective: To analyze bronchoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic method in patients with tracheobronchial foreign body. Methods: We analyzed reports of flexible bronchoscopy with diagnose of tracheobronchial foreign body performed from 2003 to 2013 in São Salvador Hospital, in Goiania, capital of Goiás. The analysis was based on: sex and age of the patients, airways and foreign body characteristics, foreign body localization, success rate and rate of bleeding. We calculated the frequencies after analyzing the data. Results: We analyzed 26 reports of the studied period and found that 57.7% of the patients were male with median age of 58.83 years old (+—13.79). The airways characteristics were normal in most of the cases. Sputum wasn’t found in 57.69% of the cases. Foreign bodies were located in right bronchus in 88.46% of the cases, and the extraction of them was successful in 80.76% of the cases. The absence of bleeding was reported in 96.15% of the cases. Conclusions: Flexible bronchoscopy is a notably successful method in management of tracheobronchial foreign bodies. Airways characteristics aren’t good indicatives of FB’s presence, once they are normal in most of the times.
Highlights
Tracheobronchial Foreign Body (TFB) aspiration has higher frequency among children, it can occur atHow to cite this paper: Rabahi, M.F., de Paiva, L.O., de Castro, M.A. and da Silva Neto, O.R. (2014) Flexible Bronchoscopy as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Method in Patients with Tracheobronchial Foreign Body
We studied the reports of flexible bronchoscopy performed from 2003 to 2013 that found TFB
Second place in terms of frequency goes to the age range from 71 to 80 years old, corresponding to 19.23% (n = 5) of the cases
Summary
Tracheobronchial Foreign Body (TFB) aspiration has higher frequency among children, it can occur atHow to cite this paper: Rabahi, M.F., de Paiva, L.O., de Castro, M.A. and da Silva Neto, O.R. (2014) Flexible Bronchoscopy as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Method in Patients with Tracheobronchial Foreign Body. Tracheobronchial Foreign Body (TFB) aspiration has higher frequency among children, it can occur at. The Gold standard treatment for foreign body (FB) aspiration remains rigid bronchoscopy. In many departments flexible bronchoscopy has been the procedure of choice for diagnosis and treatment of FB aspiration in adult population [6]. Flexible bronchoscopy is a great option to treat TFB. It remarkably increased the visible range especially in the upper lobes where the sub-segmental bronchi up to the IV order of division can be visualized. This is possible even when the bronchi are distorted, displaced or with stenosis. Material can be obtained from bronchi under direct vision by using brushes or biopsy curettes [6]-[9]
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