This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics is devoted to "Tracheal Surgery" and is edited by Drs. Frank Detterbeck and Erich Hecker. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Anatomy and Physiology; ...

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 ...

Doctors from Northwest China's Shaanxi province recently performed a successful and rare tracheal surgery using 4D printing technology on a woman suffering from breathing problem. According to a press ...

Primary tracheomalacia is a congenital condition in which the tracheal wall is weak. When the weakness is severe, the trachea can collapse during inspiration, obstructing the normal airflow. It is ...

Primary tracheomalacia is a weakness of the main airway (the trachea). It usuallycauses breathing difficulties in early life. Aortopexy involves attaching the aorta to the sternum with sutures. The ...

Engineers and doctors 3D printed this custom-made splint that currently holds open the airway of a six-week-old infant and will be gradually absorbed into the body over time. Image via University of ...

From the moment 11-month-old Yaseen came to Apollo Children’s Hospital in Chennai from Oman, doctors faced a huge challenge: the baby had a hole in his heart, a narrow wind pipe, and his left lung had ...

Doctors in Raipur successfully performed a complex tracheoplasty with anterior tracheal wall reconstruction on a 36-year-old patient suffering from severe subglottic stenosis. The patient, who ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn — According to the Knox County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Dalton Swanger's tracheal resection surgery has been ...