Endoscopic Gluing of Bronchopleural Fistula

Pericardial Flap: An Effective Method of Surgical Repair of Late Post-Pneumonectomy Fistula

“…The success rate of PBF surgical closure has been reported in the range of 30% to 85%, with a mortality rate of 19.5% to 71% [9,10,20,21]. Endobronchial management of PBF is an attractive therapeutic option with no need for re-thoracotomy [12,13]. However, this technique can be applied only in selected patients, and most of them require another operation.…”

“…Increasingly better treatment effect is obtained in some patients using endoscopic intrabronchial stenting procedures in combination with pleural space drainage [12,13]. In case of the failure of PBF surgical treatment and ineffective chest tube drainage, open window thoracostomy remains the only therapeutic option.…”

Bronchoscopic sclerotherapy combined with thoracoscopic drainage for postpneumonectomy bronchial fistula and empyema

“…Bronchoscopic fistula closure usually entails application of fibrin or synthetic glues to plug the bronchial defect [2,4,5,8,11]. Fibrin glue is the most popular form of endoscopic fistula therapy.…”

Endoscopic patch closure of malignant esophagotracheal fistula using Histoacryl glue

“…The use of rapidly hardening solutions of amino acids or fibrin glue has been described for the closure of small esophagorespiratory, esophagomediastinal, and duodenal-cutaneous fistulas [5,7,8]. Sim-1435 ilarly, Histoacryl glue has been used to seal bronchopleural fistulas [1,13,14] with satisfactory results.…”