Objectives: The many advantages of early tracheal extubation following congenital cardiac surgery in young infants and children are now widely recognized. Benefits include avoiding the morbidity ...

One of the long-term impacts observed during the COVID-19 pandemic stems from patients being intubated and breathing from a ventilator for an extended period of time. These patients usually undergo a ...

This case study is the first of its kind to document a successful technique to create a fully functional trachea and also report a rare type of malignant tumor in an adult's trachea, said Samer ...

After breathing through an implanted tube in her throat for six years, a woman underwent the first successful human trachea transplant, in an 18-hour procedure performed by surgeons at Mount Sinai. To ...

Doctors from northwest China's Shaanxi Province recently performed a successful and rare tracheal surgery using 4D printing technology on a woman suffering from breathing problem. According to a press ...

In a world first in children, British and Italian doctors have transplanted a new airway (trachea) into a child and used the child's own stem cells, in the body, to rebuild it. : The donated trachea ...

ATLANTA — Little Justice Altidor, who is 4 months old, will grow up to hear the amazing story of how her life and her sister's life began. Between the identical twins, they spent 168 days in the ...

A team of Mount Sinai surgeons has performed the world's first human tracheal transplant--an achievement that has the potential to save the lives of thousands of patients around the world who have ...

Vellore has successfully performed robotic slide tracheoplasty on an eight-year-old boy for a condition called congenital ...

A total of 416 patients less than 1 year old were included in this review. This cohort included 234 patients (56%) who underwent tracheal extubation in the OR, of who 25 subsequently required ...