Abstract
We herein reported two patients of extremely pseudocroup. Case 1: A seven year old boy had yellow viscous pus resembling a pseudomenbrane in the glottis bilateral and severe mucosal swelling in the subglotlis. This dyspnea did not respond to inhalation and other treatments, and binally underwent an emergency tracheostomy. Cases 2: A 12 month old girl underwent endotracheal intubation, without satisfuctory improvement of dysprea because the tube was easily obstructed by profuse bloody sputum and finally tracheostomy was carried out. Chest X-ray revealed no causatine abnormal finding. These two case seem to come under the category of bacterial tracheitis, discribed by Jones et al, in 1979. Etiology of this disease remains unknown. Staphylococcus aureus is often detected, as in case 1. Laryngofiberscope was useful in diagnosis, and tracheostomy was necessory to relieve dyspnea.
