NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A team of Mount Sinai surgeons has performed the world's first human tracheal transplant. Experts say the achievement has the potential to save the lives of thousands of ...

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 ...

Advances are being made at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital as the hospital practices new procedure options for infants with tracheomalacia. Tracheomalacia is a condition where ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the specialties our pediatric surgeons are trained in is procedures specific to the airway and pulmonary tract (the lungs). These can include treatment of lung malformations and tumors or ...

Doctors at the UCLA Gender Health Program have developed a technique to reduce an Adam's apple bump without leaving a scar on the patient's neck. The advance could be an important and welcome one for ...

Douglas E. Wood, M.D.: mesothelioma, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, tracheal surgery; Thoracic Surgery Clinic at UW Medical Center – Montlake Surgery Pavilion, 1959 N.E. Pacific St., floor 3, Seattle ...

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 ...