ABSTRACT

Introduction: prolonged ventilation and advances in medical care have resulted in an increase in the number of laryngotracheal injuries related to orotracheal intubation. Other etiologies such as tumors, blunt trauma and the performance of tracheostomies generate obstructive airway problems. Materials and methods: a series of cases was carried out on all patients in whom tracheal resection and anastomosis were performed at the Bajío High Specialty Regional Hospital during the years 2007 to 2022. The data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 program. Results: a total of 37 patients were collected. The main surgical indication was post-intubation stenosis, of which grade III was the most frequent. Only one patient presented re-stenosis requiring a T-cannula. No recurrent paralysis was detected. Discussion: the distribution by sex and average age is similar to other studies already published. No patient had a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the patients evaluated, it was not necessary to perform supralaryngeal tracheal release maneuvers. Conclusions: tracheoplasty is a procedure with a low number of complications and is effective.

KEYWORDS

tracheal resection, tracheal anastomosis, tracheal stenosis, tracheoplasty, tracheal tumor.

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