Acute airway obstruction developed after overnight ventilation in a patient who had undergone a closed mitral valvotomy for mitral stenosis. This was due to a large tracheal cast that had formed probably as a result of fibrinous or plastic tracheobronchitis. The cast was expelled by coughing, after which the postoperative course was uneventful.
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