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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/health/trachea-transplant-genden.html
Sonia Sein, outside her Bronx home, had irreparable damage to her trachea. She received a new trachea in January and is believed to be the first patient in the world to undergo a successful direct transplant of a donor trachea.Credit.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
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âThere Was Nothing Anybody Could Do for These Patients.â Now There Is.
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.
Pam Belluck, The New York Times
Published: 06 Apr 2021 02:21 PM BdST
Updated: 06 Apr 2021 02:21 PM BdST Sonia Sein, who had irreparable damage to her trachea and received a new trachea in January, sits outside her Bronx home on Mar 22, 2021. Sein is believed to be the first patient in the world to undergo a successful direct transplant of a donor trachea. Sarah Blesener/The New York Times Sonia Sein, speaks with Dr Eric M Genden Sr, chairman of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, left, and Dr Sander S Florman, director of Mount Sinai’s Transplantation Institute, in New York on March 22, 2021. Sarah Blesener/The New York Times