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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Oct 2007
Case ReportsTracheoesophageal fistula and tracheo-subclavian artery fistula after tracheostomy.
- Jung-Jyh Hung, Han-Shui Hsu, Chien-Sheng Huang, and Kuang-Yao Yang.
- Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2007 Oct 1; 32 (4): 676-8.
AbstractTracheoesophageal fistula and tracheo-arterial fistula are both uncommon but life-threatening complications after a tracheostomy. The most common source of a major hemorrhage is from the tracheo-innominate artery fistula. Most tracheo-arterial fistulas occur within the first 3 weeks after tracheostomy. We describe a very rare case of a patient who developed both a tracheoesophageal fistula and massive hemorrhage from a tracheo-left subclavian artery fistula 4 months after a tracheostomy procedure.
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