A 3D-engineered silicone stent to treat a refractory bronchopleural fistula

Pascalin Roy; Valentin Héluain; Pierre Leyx; Thomas Villeneuve; Romain Vergé; Laurent Brouchet; Nicolas Guibert

doi:10.1183/23120541.00670-2022

A 3D-engineered silicone stent to treat a refractory bronchopleural fistula

ERJ Open Res. 2023 Mar 13;9(2):00670-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00670-2022. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Authors

Pascalin Roy^{1

2}, Valentin Héluain¹, Pierre Leyx³, Thomas Villeneuve¹, Romain Vergé⁴, Laurent Brouchet^{4

5}, Nicolas Guibert^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonology Department, Larrey Hospital, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec, Canada.
³ AnatomikModeling Society, Toulouse, France.
⁴ Thoracic Surgery Department, Larrey Hospital, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
⁵ University of Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier), Toulouse, France.

Abstract

A novel 3D-engineered silicone stent was successfully used to treat a refractory bronchopleural fistula of the right lower lobe in a patient with an open-window thoracostomy who complained of severe dysphonia and recurrent infections https://bit.ly/3GrKs2p.