
Rare Complication Of Orotracheal Intubation: Obstructive Fibrinous Tracheal Pseudomembrane, About A Case And Review Of The Literature
Author(s) -
Anass Benali
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hsoa journal of pulmonary medicine and respiratory research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2573-0177
DOI - 10.24966/pmrr-0177/100038
Subject(s) - complication , orotracheal intubation , medicine , intubation , bronchoscopy , presentation (obstetrics) , surgery , endotracheal intubation
We report a case of obstructive fibrinous tracheal pseudomembrane as being complication of endotracheal intubation in a 73 year-old woman, whose particularities are: The non-urgent clinical presentation with non-specific symptoms, the biopsy with anatomopathological study exceptionally found in the literature for the same case and the favorable evolution under medical treatment without recourse to the interventional bronchoscopy which represents the treatment the most frequent and the most effective of this affection.