Acute Airway Obstruction and Cardiopulmonary Arrest due to Tracheomalacia Caused by Megaesophagus Compression Secondary to Achalasia

Mickael Aubignat; Pierre-Alexandre Roger; Amandine Dernoncourt; Valery Salle; Amar Smail; Clement Gourguechon; Jean Schmidt; Pierre Duhaut

doi:10.1155/2020/5946985

Acute Airway Obstruction and Cardiopulmonary Arrest due to Tracheomalacia Caused by Megaesophagus Compression Secondary to Achalasia

Case Rep Pulmonol. 2020 May 9:2020:5946985. doi: 10.1155/2020/5946985. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Mickael Aubignat¹, Pierre-Alexandre Roger², Amandine Dernoncourt¹, Valery Salle¹, Amar Smail¹, Clement Gourguechon¹, Jean Schmidt¹, Pierre Duhaut¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Amiens University Hospital, France.
² Department of Respiratory Diseases and Intensive Care Unit, Amiens University Hospital, France.

Abstract

We report the case of an 80-year-old woman who presented one episode of cardiopulmonary arrest and two episodes of acute airway obstruction. We found in this patient the presence of tracheomalacia caused by megaesophagus compression secondary to achalasia probably responsible for episodes of acute airway obstruction and cardiopulmonary arrest.

Publication types

Case Reports