As experience accumulates, direct surgical attack of tracheomalacia may replace tracheostomy in the management of proximal and diffuse tracheomalacia. These procedures include prosthetic stenting, tracheoplasty and tracheal resection with end to end anastmosis. Lateral Chest radiograph shows excessive tracheal narrowing. Mechanism of tracheal narrowing is shown here in normal and in tracheomalacia. Tracheal dilatation in expiration.
Trachea narrows in anteroposterior diameter during inspiration and expiration.
Trachea narrows between 25 to 50 of anteroposterior diameter during expiration. Tracheal stenting improves airway mechanics in infants with tracheobronchomalacia. Medicine is a constantly changing science and not all therapies are clearly established. New research changes drug and treatment therapies daily. However, as medical science is constantly changing and human error is always possible , the authors, editors, and publisher or any other party involved with the publication of this text do not warrant the information in this text is accurate or complete, nor are they responsible for omissions or errors in the text or for the results of using this information.