| Tracheomalacia often improves as the baby grows, but severe damage to the trachea may require surgery or tracheostomy. |
| The classic treatment of severe tracheomalacia is aortopexy. |
| Kniest dysplasia is a type of chondrodysplasia characterized by severe craniofacial abnormalities including tracheomalacia, midface hypoplasia, and cleft palate. |
| The differential diagnosis of tracheomalacia includes laryngomalacia, subglottic stenosis, congenital cysts, vocal cord paralysis, and hypocalcemic tetany. |
| Follow-up revealed one case of tracheomalacia and two patients required a gastrostomy. |
| Flexible bronchoscopy demonstrated tracheomalacia and a collapse of the trachea at the stenotic segment. |
