ArticleFrontiers in surgery2017
Posterior Tracheopexy for Severe Tracheomalacia Associated with Esophageal Atresia (EA): Primary Treatment at the Time of Initial EA Repair versus Secondary Treatment.
Article in Frontiers in surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06335862 (Primary pOsterioR TRacheopexy Prevents Collapse of the Trachea in Newborns With Oesophageal AtresIa and Tracheomalacia), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers.
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Primary pOsterioR TRacheopexy Prevents Collapse of the Trachea in Newborns With Oesophageal AtresIa and Tracheomalacia
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- Indications and Utility of Posterior Tracheopexy in the Pediatric Population: An Overview of Its Expanding Role in Tracheobronchial Disease.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-Up of Tracheo/Bronchomalacia in Children: The Italian Multicenter Experience.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Tracheomalacia and surgical options: A case series perspective.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Review
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- Correlation of Tracheomalacia Severity With Esophageal Gap Length as Assessed by Ultrashort Echo-time MRI.Journal of pediatric surgery · 2024Article
- Usefulness of lateral-anteroposterior dimeter ratio in patients with tracheomalacia associated with esophageal atresia.Pediatric surgery international · 2024Article
- Update on aortopexy and posterior tracheopexy for tracheomalacia in patients with esophageal atresia.Surgery today · 2024Review
- Multidisciplinary approach to vascular rings and vascular-related aerodigestive compression: a clinical practice review.Translational pediatrics · 2023Review
- Effects of primary posterior tracheopexy in thoracoscopic repair of esophageal atresia.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Imaging in neonatal respiratory disease.Paediatric respiratory reviews · 2022Review
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- Central airway issues in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.Pediatric pulmonology · 2021Article
- Experience with bioresorbable splints for treatment of airway collapse in a pediatric population.JTCVS techniques · 2021Article
- Primary Posterior Tracheopexy in Esophageal Atresia Decreases Respiratory Tract Infections.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- Report on advances for pediatricians in 2018: allergy, cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, hereditary metabolic diseases, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, neonatology, nutrition, respiratory tract disorders and surgery.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2019Review
- Laryngotracheal Abnormalities in Esophageal Atresia Patients: A Hidden Entity.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeWe review outcomes of posterior tracheopexy for tracheomalacia in esophageal atresia (EA) patients, comparing primary treatment at the time of initial EA repair versus secondary treatment.
methodsAll EA patients who underwent posterior tracheopexy from October 2012 to September 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. Clinical symptoms, tracheomalacia scores, and persistent airway intrusion were collected. Indication for posterior tracheopexy was the presence of clinical symptoms, in combination with severe tracheomalacia as identified on bronchoscopic evaluation, typically defined as coaptation in one or more regions of the trachea. Secondary cases were usually those with chronic respiratory symptoms who underwent bronchoscopic evaluation, whereas primary cases were those found to have severe tracheomalacia on routine preoperative dynamic tracheobronchoscopy at the time of initial EA repair.
resultsA total of 118 patients underwent posterior tracheopexy: 18 (15%) primary versus 100 (85%) secondary cases. Median (interquartile range) age was 2 months (1-4 months) for primary (22% type C) and 18 months (8-40 months) for secondary (87% type C) cases (
conclusionPosterior tracheopexy is effective in treating severe tracheomalacia with significant improvements in clinical symptoms and degree of airway collapse on bronchoscopy. With no significant differences in outcomes between primary and secondary treatment, posterior tracheopexy should be selectively considered at the time of initial EA repair.
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