The Pneumology service of the Regional University Hospital of Malaga has detected the first case of tracheal subglottic stenosis familial idiopathic disease described in Spain, when identifying this airway narrowing in three related women.
It is a pathology whose cause may be caused by infections, prolonged intubation, trauma or systemic inflammatory diseases. However, a small number of cases are of unknown origin.
This disease consists of a narrowing of the laryngeal lumen at the level of the cricoid cartilage. This is the most inferior of the laryngeal cartilages and lies between the cricoid cartilage and the first tracheal rings. Idiopathic subglottic stenosis It is more common in women between the ages of 20-50. and the familial predisposition of this entity is unknown, with few cases reported in the literature, the Board has indicated in a statement.
In this sense, the head of the Pneumology service, Antonio Dorado, has indicated that its detection originated from the identification of this pathology in a 55-year-old patient with no medical history surgical physicians of interest, referred due to symptoms of dyspnea -respiratory difficulty- at minimal effort and without symptoms of gastroesophageal disease.
In the CT of the neck it was observed 4.50 mm tracheal stenosis. Respiratory function tests were then performed, in which fixed airflow obstruction morphology was observed, and conventional bronchoscopy was also performed, in which subglottic stenosis was visualized.