Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to C Mehta.
A six-week-old child with tracheal duplication presenting with congenital stridor is being reported. To the best of our knowledge, a tracheal web or tracheal duplication (as the present condition may be named) has not been described as a causative factor of infantile stridor.
A case of a 63-year-old patient with motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) with central sleep apnoea syndrome is being reported. His sleep architecture was fragmented with a high apnea-hypopnea index of 65 per hour and maximum oxygen-desaturation of 78 percent. Total correction of sleep pattern with nasal non-invasive ventilation (BiPAP-ST) was demonstrated.