گزارش يك مورد فيستول تراكيو ازوفاژيال ناشي از لوله گذاري داخل - نايي در بيمارستان امام خميني تبريز

In spite of great improvements in medical-care services as well as equipments, tracheoesophageal complications such as tracheal stenosis, tracheomalacia, tracheoesophageal fistula, and tracheoinnominate fistula occur increasingly due to the long-term intubation of critically-ill patients. Tracheoesophageal fistulae (TEF) usually result from erosions of the tracheal and esophageal walls by endotracheal or tracheostomy tube cuffs, especially when a rigid nasogastric tube is in place simultaneously. In this article we introduce a 68 year-old patient who developed a TEF after a 10-day period of mechanical ventilation through an orotracheal tube and her diagnosis and treatment at Imam Khomeini hospital in Tabriz.