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Posterior glottic lesions were graded according to the Bogdasarian classification, subglottic-tracheal lesions according to the Cotton-Myers classification and postoperative complications reported by the Clavien\u2013Dindo classification. We report postoperative outcomes and functional results in this patient subset.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We include 14 patients diagnosed to have post COVID LTS, one female and 13 males. This group was compared with a control group, diagnosed with LTS following prolonged intubation. In the COVID group, mean age of patients at the time of the airway surgery was 52.1\u2009\u00b1\u200916.8\u00a0years (range: 13.7\u201376.3). More than half the patients were multi-morbid with hypertension and obesity being the most common conditions. Eleven patients had multi-site stenoses. Open surgical interventions performed were tracheal resection and anastomosis, laryngotracheal reconstruction and extended cricotracheal resection, and postoperative complications were seen in 12 (85.6%) patients. 70% patients with pre-existing tracheostomy were decannulated. Oral swallowing was not tolerated in one-fifth of the patients and a significant number of them have poor voice quality.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Post-COVID pandemic, airway surgeons are seeing an increased number of patients with complex LTS, and we report significant postoperative complications in this patient subset. Decannulation rates, voice and swallowing results are poor in patients with glottic involvement as compared to isolated tracheal stenosis.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00405-024-08533-z","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,26]],"date-time":"2024-02-26T15:02:43Z","timestamp":1708959763000},"page":"2531-2538","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Open airway surgery for post-COVID laryngotracheal stenosis"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"281","author":[{"given":"Llu\u00eds","family":"Nisa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hajdi","family":"Leroyer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1977-4551","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kishore","family":"Sandu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"8533_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1007\/s00405-020-06112-6","volume":"278","author":"C Piazza","year":"2021","unstructured":"Piazza C, Filauro M, Dikkers FG et al (2021) Long-term intubation and high rate of tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients might determine an unprecedented increase of airway stenoses: a call to action from the European Laryngological Society. 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