Social worker, 56, treated at Mt Sinai hospital in New York
Some patients left with serious damage from ventilators
Trachea transplant recipient Sonia Sein talks with the lead surgeon of her procedure, Dr Eric Genden, left, during a checkup visit at Mt Sinai hospital in New York last month. Photograph: Marshall Ritzel/AP
Trachea transplant recipient Sonia Sein talks with the lead surgeon of her procedure, Dr Eric Genden, left, during a checkup visit at Mt Sinai hospital in New York last month. Photograph: Marshall Ritzel/AP
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Tue 6 Apr 2021 11.23 EDT
Surgeons in New York City have performed the first windpipe transplant in the US, giving a woman who suffered severe asthma a new trachea, the tube that transports air from the mouth to the lungs.