A Baltimore man became only the second patient to receive a completely synthetic trachea, to replace one ravaged by cancer. Swedish surgeons, led by Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, director of the Advanced ...

LONDON (AP) - For more than 2 1/2 years, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe from a ...

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LONDON (AP) — Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric ...

April 6, 2021 • A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a trachea. These kinds of transplants are one of the last big transplant challenges.