Clavicular Head Subluxation Resulting in Tracheal Compromise in an Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type III Patient: A Case
Abraham Oommen1, Dillon Froass2, Mark Dobish3
1Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Nemours Children's Health System, Wilmington, USA.
Abstract:
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) poses many known challenges to anesthesiologists; however, structural and functional abnormalities of the trachea have not previously been described. OI results in fragile and brittle bones due to a defect in type 1 collagen production. Perioperative anesthetic considerations include risk of fracture with patient positioning, potential for difficult airway, and managing restrictive lung disease in conjunction with spinal deformities. Our case describes an adolescent male patient with OI type III who was found to have significant tracheal compromise and airway obstruction with the induction of general anesthesia for spinal fusion. Bronchoscopy performed after intubation revealed a compression and tortuosity of the distal trachea, confirmed with a postoperative computed tomography angiogram. Subluxation of the right clavicular head caused tracheal compression and narrowing. This is the first reported case of a patient with OI type III with undiagnosed tracheal compression and deviation secondary to clavicular head subluxation.
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