Endoscopic management of post-lung transplantation anastomotic stenosis: metallic, silicone or biodegradable stents Reply

Abstract

Silicone stents were used at our institution in the era before biodegradable stenting. Between January 1997 and January 2005, we performed 98 lung transplants in 67 patients (36 single-lung transplants and 31 bilateral-lung transplants).

Four bronchial anastomotic complications requiring stenting (4.1%) occurred in four patients (6.0%). All were successfully treated with silicone-Dumon stents, which were removed at the end of the treatment.

Keywords

• Lung transplantation
• Bronchial stenosis
• Metallic stents
• Silicone stents
• Biodegradable stents