title: Management of tracheal surgery complications.
abstract: Complications in tracheal surgery are not uncommon but generally do not influence the final result. Most patients benefit from tracheal resections and mortality is low. Risk factors for complications are reoperations, preoperative tracheostomy, and lengthy resections. Precise information about the extent of the diseased tracheal part as well as thorough planning of the operative procedure, meticulous dissection, and knowledge of release maneuvers by an experienced thoracic surgeon will diminish the risk of adverse effects. Granuloma formation is the most common event observed postoperatively, whereas dehiscence and restenosis or the potentially fatal bleeding from a tracheo-innominate artery fistula occurs less frequently.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, ELK Berlin Chest Hospital, Lindenberger Weg 27, Berlin 13125, Germany. Electronic address: gunda.leschber@elk-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Gunda
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leschber
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures; D014132:Trachea / Q000601:surgery*; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014138:Tracheoesophageal Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000009:adverse effects
keywords: Dehiscence; Granuloma; Restenosis; Tracheal surgery complications; Tracheo-innominate artery fistula