Flexible bronchoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic method in patients with tracheobronchial foreign body
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2014
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Objective: To analyze bronchoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic method in patients with tra-
cheobronchial foreign body. Methods: We analyzed reports of flexible bronchoscopy with diag-
nose of tracheobronchial foreign body performed from 2003 to 2013 in São Salvador Hospital, in
Goiania, capital of Goiás. The analysis was based on: sex and age of the patients, airways and for-
eign body characteristics, foreign body localization, success rate and rate of bleeding. We calcu-
lated the frequencies after analyzing the data. Results: We analyzed 26 reports of the studied pe-
riod and found that 57.7% of the patients were male with median age of 58.83 years old (+−13.79).
The airways characteristics were normal in most of the cases. Sputum wasn’t found in 57.69% of
the cases. Foreign bodies were located in right bronchus in 88.46% of the cases, and the extraction
of them was successful in 80.76% of the cases. The absence of bleeding was reported in 96.15% of
the cases. Conclusions: Flexible bronchoscopy is a notably successful method in management of
tracheobronchial foreign bodies. Airways characteristics aren’t good indicatives of FB’s presence,
once they are normal in most of the times.
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Flexible bronchoscopy, Airway management, Foreign bodies
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RABAHI, Marcelo Fouad et al. Flexible bronchoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic method in patients with tracheobronchial foreign body. International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Wuhan, v. 5, n. 2, p. 704-710, 2014.