The first successful direct transplant of a trachea is a medical milestone that could help thousands of people with airways damaged by ventilators and other causes. Sonia Sein, outside her Bronx ...

T reating collapsing trachea in dogs can be a daunting prospect for owners. Tracheal collapse occurs when the windpipe becomes flattened and the airflow in and out of the lungs is obstructed.

Read more about trachea transplants. The woman still has scarring from the 2008 procedure, according to the case report, and has gone through 14 different stents to widen her narrowing windpipe.

Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene left a Stockholm hospital Friday, breathing through a manufactured trachea that was built with his own stem cells. The 36-year-old Eritrean geology student at the ...

July 26, 2012— -- The first child in history to receive a trachea fashioned by his own stem cells has shown remarkable progress since the initial transplant two years ago, marking a new ...

The trachea is a tube-like passage that runs down the neck and upper chest, carrying air to and from the lungs. Learn more about the trachea here.

Mature, the trachea begins below the voice box, descends three or four inches, and then branches to the lungs. Poke the base of your neck, just above your chest, and you can feel the rings of its ...

If their trachea begins to collapse, you may notice your dog producing a honking cough. This happens as the air pushes through the collapsing rings of cartilage. Signs of Tracheal Collapse in Dogs ...

The new trachea was built by taking the windpipe of a donor, killing off its natural cells, and then filling its collagen structure with cells from Castillo's windpipe and stem cells.

A: Collapsing trachea, also called tracheal collapse, is very common in toy and small-breed dogs like Yorkies. The trachea, or windpipe, is a flexible tube made of cartilage rings that meet at a ...

The lion attacked the director and founder of the Yalta zoo "Skazka" and safari park "Taigan" Oleg Zubkov on June 22. The man ...

Neuroendocrine cells in the larynx and trachea, which make up the passageway from the mouth to the lungs, can sense water and acid passing through, a team reports in the April 19 Science.