
Management of the Trachea, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 35-1 - November 12, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Maria Lucia L. Madariaga, Hugh G. Auchincloss
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 4 6 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 4 6 5 - 5
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest editors Drs. Maria Lucia Madariaga and Hugh Auchincloss bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Management of the Trachea. Top experts provide a complete update of management of the trachea and its conditions, beginning with anatomy and followed by individual articles on specific treatments, anesthesia, and airway appliances. Two other articles of note are on tracheal transplantation and laryngeal surgery.
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including anatomy of the trachea; extended tracheal resection/carinal resection; management of tracheal surgery complications and redo tracheal surgery; management of primary tracheal tumors; tracheal transplantation; and more.
- Provides in-depth articles on management of the trachea, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Anatomy of the Trachea
- Key points
- Introduction
- Embryology and histology
- Anatomy
- Clinics care points
- Anesthetic Management for Tracheal Resection and Reconstruction
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative evaluation of the patient presenting for tracheal surgery
- Induction of anesthesia
- Anesthetic management during dissection
- Alternative approaches to airway management
- Emergence and extubation
- Postoperative care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Non-intubated Airway Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Patient evaluation overview
- Surgical treatment option (procedures)
- Tubeless cervical tracheal reconstruction
- Tubeless intrathoracic tracheal reconstruction
- Tubeless carinal reconstruction
- Potential complications of nonintubated airway surgery
- Clinical outcomes and long-term recommendations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Endoscopic Management of Laryngotracheal Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation
- Supraglottic stenosis
- Acute post-intubation laryngeal injury
- Anterior glottic stenosis
- Posterior glottic stenosis
- Bilateral vocal fold paralysis
- Subglottic and tracheal stenosis
- Autoimmune-mediated laryngotracheal stenosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Laryngeal Surgery as It Pertains to the Thoracic Surgeon
- Key points
- Background
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Laryngotracheal Resection for Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Patient evaluation
- Treatment
- Surgical treatment
- Laryngotracheal resection and reconstruction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Tracheal Resection for Post-intubation/Post-tracheostomy Tracheal Stenosis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathogenesis of tracheal stenosis
- Incidence
- Risk factors
- Symptoms and diagnosis
- Indication for endoscopic management
- Laser therapy
- Endoscopic dilation
- Stent placement
- Surgical management
- Contraindications to surgery
- Segmental resection and primary anastomosis
- General principles of tracheal resection
- Surgical approach
- Tension release
- Complications
- Tracheoplasty and other novel approaches
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Tracheoesophageal Fistula and Tracheoinnominate Fistula
- Key points
- Introduction
- Acquired benign tracheoesophageal fistula
- Malignant tracheoesophageal fistula
- Clinics care points
- Tracheoinnominate fistula
- Clinics care points
- Management of Primary Tracheal Tumors
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Histology
- Diagnostic work-up, imaging, and extent of resection
- Treatment options
- Clinical outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Extended Tracheal Resection: Carinal Resections
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- Management of Tracheal Surgery Complications and Redo Tracheal Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anastomotic complications
- Risk factors for anastomotic complications
- Prevention of anastomotic complications
- Nonanastomotic complications
- Redo tracheal surgery
- Clinics care points
- Tracheobronchomalacia vs Excessive Dynamic Airway Collapse
- Key points
- Introduction
- Airway resistance, choke points, and dynamic airway collapse
- Patient evaluation overview
- Patient selection
- Surgical approach
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Tracheal Transplantation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Tracheal allotransplantation for patch tracheal defects
- Repair of circumferential tracheal defects
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 35-1
- Published: November 12, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443294648
- eBook ISBN: 9780443294655
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Maria Lucia L. Madariaga
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Chicago, Division of the Biological Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA