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Tracheal Stenosis by Bitter_Angel Posted Tue 06 Jul 2010 5:37pm the tube. The next stage of treatment is classed as open surgery and again varies depending on the level of damage. A tracheal resection can be performed. This is where the trachea.... Future advancements There is currently a lot of research being put into tracheal transplants. This would involve putting a donors trachea into the patient, which can be tricky Read on »
Windpipe Stem Cell Surgery– Regenerative Medicine Offering Solution to Cancer Patients by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Sun 01 Aug 2010 10:53am in the US.  BD Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea... Back in 2008 a similar story broke in the news with a donor being located for surgery to replace a woman’s windpipe. The donor windpipe was stripped of all cells leaving Read on »
Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Fri 21 Nov 2008 3:00pm a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever... Instead of removing a lung, the windpipe transplant was the solution, and this occurred in Spain.  Once the donor was located the physicians went to work with stripping off Read on »
Post-Intubation Tracheal Stenosis by Adam THOMPSON Posted Sun 02 May 2010 5:34pm Post-Intubation Tracheal Stenosis There has been quite a bit of research done on post-intubation injuries caused by the pressure of the endotracheal tube cuff... to measure ETTCP after intubation in all patients. Pubmed [ 4 ] Intubation-induced tracheal stenosis -- the urgent need for permanent solution. Abstract The most common site Read on »
Charo Appointed to Obama Team as Patient's Own Adult Stem Cells Make New Windpipe by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted Tue 23 Dec 2008 9:14pm for powerful immunosuppressant drugs. Doctors overcame the problem of rejection by taking her own stem cells to grow the replacement organ, using a donor trachea (lower windpipe... cell research continues to advance exponentially. Now, scientists grew a new windpipe for a woman from her own stem cells, and successfully transplanted it into her body. From Read on »
Stem Cells Used to Rebuild 10-year-old Boy's Windpipe in Groundbreaking Surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital by BreastFeedingMums .. Patient Expert Posted Sat 20 Mar 2010 12:00am . Stem cells taken from the boy's bone marrow were injected into the fibrous collagen 'scaffold' of a donor trachea, or windpipe. The organ, which had first been stripped of its... Doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using his own stem cells. If successful Read on »
Things I've Learned Of Late by Puglet .. Patient Expert Posted Sat 29 Nov 2008 12:19pm It's all sunshine and roses until you get a second degree burn and a crusty mole and your trachea swells shut due to anaphylaxis from a bee sting. Read on »
Christmas Beauty Science by Sarah B. Patient Expert Posted Thu 24 Dec 2009 10:01pm like this study I found on the composition and pharmaceutical activity of chondroitan sulfate obtained from reindeer trachea. That’s right, I said “reindeer trachea.” Although... be secretly harvesting reindeer trachea for big Pharma? Run Rudolph, run! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Beauty Brains! Read on »
Christmas Beauty Science by Sarah B. Patient Expert Posted Sat 25 Dec 2010 1:01am like this study I found on the composition and pharmaceutical activity of chondroitan sulfate obtained from reindeer trachea . That’s right, I said “reindeer trachea.” Although... be secretly harvesting reindeer trachea for big Pharma? Run Rudolph, run! Read on »
Trick of the trade: Endotracheal tube lubrication by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted Wed 26 May 2010 12:00am layer of water-soluble lubricant, such as K-Y jelly. This lubricant can also minimize the degree of surface trauma to the trachea and tracheal rings as the tube passes the vocal Read on »