Most surgeries are safe, with the risk of complications very minimal, but some are more dangerous than others. An ...

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 ...

Bronchoscopy Congenital tracheal stenosis (airway blocked by scars) Empyema (build-up of fluid putting pressure on the lungs) Lung abscess & tumors Lung malformations Pulmonary sequestration (tissue ...

Our data again demonstrate that early tracheal extubation is achievable in small infants undergoing cardiovascular surgery. Successful early tracheal extubation avoids the potential complications ...

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 ...

Carlos Limendú Torres, a 24-year-old adaptive sports coach, remarkably survived a lightning strike while waiting for ...

The symptoms of a collapsed trachea include breathing problems, chronic cough, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, respiratory infections, and more.

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 ...

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.

Group 1 patients had tracheal extubation in the OR and remained extubated, group 2 patients had tracheal extubation in the OR, but required reintubation either immediately or in the CTICU, group 3 ...