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Case report
Endoluminal management of benign bronchoesophageal fistula
  1. Jessica E Wahi1,
  2. Diana Rocco1,
  3. Roy Williams1 and
  4. Fernando M Safdie2
  1. 1Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
  2. 2Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jessica E Wahi; jessica.e.wahi{at}gmail.com

Abstract

The ideal management of bronchoesophageal fistulas is a debated topic. While open surgical repair remains the most definitive treatment, not all patients are fit for surgery. In this communication, we present a patient who developed a bronchoesophageal fistula 1 year after an Ivor Lewis esophagectomy that involved the native oesophagus and right mainstem bronchus. Endoluminal vacuum therapy was successful at closing this benign bronchoesophageal fistula.

  • cardiothoracic surgery
  • gastrointestinal surgery
  • endoscopy

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-245240

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    • Contributors JEW: conception and design, acquisition of data and drafting the article; DR: acquisition of data; RW: analysis and interpretation of data, revising the article critically for important intellectual content; FMS: conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, revising the article for critically for important intellectual content.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.