Efficacy and safety of flexible endoscopic intervention via laryngeal mask airway for endobronchial hamartoma removal

Abstract

Objective

To evaluate the clinical characteristics, efficacy and safety of flexible endoscopic intervention for endobronchial hamartoma.

Material and methods

Thirteen patients with endobronchial hamartoma who underwent flexible endoscopic intervention at a single center were analyzed retrospectively. The clinical characteristics and efficacy of flexible endoscopic intervention were described.

Results

Nine patients were cured after one single flexible endoscopic intervention, three patients underwent second flexible endoscopic interventions due to late tumor recurrence, while one patient who eventually became stable with a 40% stenosis of the airway lumen, received a third intervention because of two relapses. Pneumothorax occurred in one patient who was cured after oxygen therapy. There were no serious complications such as massive hemorrhage, airway perforation, airway ignition and suffocation associated with the therapy.

Conclusions

Flexible endoscopic intervention appeared to be safe and effective for the treatment of patients with endobronchial hamartoma.

Keywords:

• Endobronchial hamartoma
• flexible bronchoscopy
• endoscopy intervention

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflicts of interest related to this work.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) [JX10231802]; the Jiangsu Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases Project [BL2012012]; Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province [Grant CXZZ11_0726].