“I can’t do this anymore,” Sonia Sein told herself, her family and her doctor. For six years, she had endured a tube inserted in her windpipe, or trachea, to keep her alive, but her discomfort and ...

The trachea is also known as the windpipe. Tracheal deviation, or tracheal displacement, is when the trachea shifts from its usual position in the neck and chest to one side. It is a symptom rather ...

The follow-up of the procedure, carried out in 2010 at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), shows that the new organ has strengthened and does not appear to have induced any signs of rejection. The 13 ...

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 home, ...