Safety of hybrid bronchial stents in transplant airway complications: a single center experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tracheobronchial stents are often used to manage lung transplant airway complications. In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning against the use of metallic stents for benign airway disease. Since that time, fully covered hybrid metallic stents have been developed and are increasingly used due to their ease of insertion and removal. There is limited data to support their safe utilization for transplant airway complications. This is the largest analysis to date of the safety of hybrid metallic stents for transplant airway complications.

Methods

We performed a retrospective study of patients who had covered metallic stents placed for transplant airway complications between April 2016 to April 2021. Information obtained from chart review includ

SUBMITTER: Sinha T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9264061 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature