Year 2018 / Volume 110 / Number 12
Case Report
Complete resolution of dysphagia after sequential Polyflex™ stenting in a case of recurrent anastomotic stenosis in an adult with congenital esophageal atresia

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2018.5620/2018

Andrés José del Pozo-García, Carlos Piedracoba-Cadahia, Fernando Sánchez-Gómez, José Carlos Marín-Gabriel, Sarbelio Rodríguez-Muñoz,

Abstract
We present a case of intractable dysphagia in a 23-year-old female with type 1 esophageal atresia (EA) and subsequent postsurgical refractory esophageal strictures. The patient was referred due to increasing symptomatology and a slight response to balloon dilations. A biodegradable polydioxanone stent (ELLA) was placed, but this did not relieve the dysphagia. After the sequential placement of two siliconated polypropylene stents (Polyflex™, Boston Scientifics), the dysphagia was definitively relieved. To our knowledge, this is the first published case with a full resolution of dysphagia using this strategy in an adult patient.
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del Pozo-García A, Piedracoba-Cadahia C, Sánchez-Gómez F, Marín-Gabriel J, Rodríguez-Muñoz S. Complete resolution of dysphagia after sequential Polyflex™ stenting in a case of recurrent anastomotic stenosis in an adult with congenital esophageal atresia. 5620/2018


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Publication history

Received: 22/03/2018

Accepted: 26/06/2018

Online First: 03/09/2018

Published: 03/12/2018

Article revision time: 76 days

Article Online First time: 165 days

Article editing time: 256 days


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