A series of unfortunate events: Mind the windpipe

Anam Miloud Elarabi; Mutaz Majdi Albakri; Mona Babiker; Mousa Hussein; Mushtaq Ahmed; Rashid Mazhar; Tasleem Raza

doi:10.1002/ccr3.3484

A series of unfortunate events: Mind the windpipe

Clin Case Rep. 2020 Nov 24;9(1):582-583. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.3484. eCollection 2021 Jan.

Authors

Anam Miloud Elarabi¹, Mutaz Majdi Albakri¹, Mona Babiker¹, Mousa Hussein¹, Mushtaq Ahmed¹, Rashid Mazhar², Tasleem Raza¹

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonology Department Hamad General Hospital Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar.
² Thoracic Surgery Department Hamad General Hospital Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar.

Abstract

Since we started seeing post-COVID pneumonia patients in our clinics, tracheo-laryngeal stenosis should be kept in mind as an important sequela of prolonged intubation (>7 days) particularly in those who are persistently symptomatic.

Keywords: COVID‐19 pneumonia; prolonged intubation; surgical resection; tracheal stenosis.