• Helenaz Fazlalizadeh, Parisa Adimi, Arda Kiani, Majid Malekmohammad, Hamid Reza Jabardarjani, Forough Soltaninejad, and Seyed Mohammad Reza Hashemian.
• Tracheal Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Tanaffos. 2014 Jan 1; 13 (4): 48-50.

BackgroundBronchoscopy is a technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. This study was performed to determine the complications of bronchoscopy in a tertiary health-care center.Materials And MethodsThis study had as descriptive cross sectional design. Four hundred adult patients between 16 to 85 years, who underwent bronchoscopy with a same method and same device and had no underlying disease, were consecutively enrolled.ResultsBronchoscopy complications were seen in 13 patients (3.25%) including bleeding (four cases), pneumothorax (three cases), collapse (four cases), and infection (two cases). There was no association between complications and age, sex, bronchoscopy indications and findings (P > 0.05).ConclusionAccording to the obtained results, it may be concluded that bronchoscopy can be performed safely whenever indicated. Complications occurred were minor and self limiting.

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