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Closure of Bronchial Defects Using Glutaraldehyde-Treated Pericardium

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1575 Blondell Avenue, Suite 125 Montefiore Medical Park Bronx NY 10461, USA

I enjoyed reading the paper by Dhaliwal and colleagues¹ on closure of bronchial defects using glutaraldehyde-treated pericardium. I congratulate them on their experience and thoroughly agree with their conclusions. PG Rosario and I presented two similar cases to the American Thoracic Society in 1991.

The first case was an infant who had inhaled a screw at some time in the past. An otolaryngologist attempting to remove it from the left lower lobe, tore the membranous part of the left main bronchus from its origin to the take-off of the upper lobe. At emergency operation, we found . . . [Full Text of this Article]