title: Anesthesia for the patient with tracheal stenosis.
abstract: Tracheal stenosis may occur secondary to trauma, tumors, infection, inflammatory diseases, or iatrogenic causes. Understanding these lesions requires a basic understanding of the physics of airflow. All of these patients must be carefully evaluated and require a series of tests, including pulmonary function tests and radiographic studies. Treatment of tracheal lesions is a multidisciplinary issue and requires the close participation of interventional pulmonologists, anesthesiologists, and surgeons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, 680 Dulles Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Geraldine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Daumerie
authors.forename: Stacey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: E Andrew
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Ochroch
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D014132:Trachea / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy