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Role of Virtual Endoscopy and 3-D Reconstruction in Airway Assessment of Critically Ill Patients

  • Adel E. Ahmed GanawEmail author
  • Moad Ehfeda
  • Nissar Shaikh
  • Marcus Lance
  • Arshad Hussain Chanda
  • Ali O. Mohamed Belkair
  • Muhammad Zubair Labathkhan
  • Gamal Abdullah
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Abstract

Virtual endoscopy (VE) is a computer simulation from the imaging anatomical studies. It is noninvasive, and hence avoids all the complications of invasive conventional endoscopy. VE does not require a pre-procedural patient preparation and had a shorter procedural time. It is a very useful technique in the diagnosis and management of trachea-bronchial injuries and stenosis; placement of tracheostomy cannula in patients with abnormal anatomy; diagnosis of tracheoesophageal and laryngeal traumatic injuries, bronchopleural fistulas, and foreign body in tracheobronchial tree; and diagnosis of inhalational injury and epiglottis.

Keywords

Conventional endoscopy Inhalational injury 3-Dimentional images Trachea-bronchial anatomy Injuries and fistula Virtual endoscopy 
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Supplementary material

Movie 10.1

VB shows external nonmucosal compressions on the bronchial wall that cause indentation upon the related part of the trachea with subsequent reduction of its AP dimension (MP4 338 kb)

Movie 10.2

VB shows external compressions caused by normal anatomic structure (esophagus) (AVI 4888 kb)

Movie 10.3

Virtual endoscopy for a case of tracheal stenosis demonstrating the level and extent (AVI 20403 kb)

Movie 10.4

Conventional flexible endoscopic evaluation for a case of TOF (AVI 2509 kb)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Adel E. Ahmed Ganaw
    • 1
    Email author
  • Moad Ehfeda
    • 1
  • Nissar Shaikh
    • 1
  • Marcus Lance
    • 1
  • Arshad Hussain Chanda
    • 1
  • Ali O. Mohamed Belkair
    • 1
  • Muhammad Zubair Labathkhan
    • 1
  • Gamal Abdullah
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of AnesthesiologyICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical CorporationDohaQatar

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