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EXCLUSIVE: In the first UK interview since the experimental surgery, Sonia Sein, 56, (pictured) reveals how a human trachea transplant has transformed her life.

A team of surgeons in New York successfully transplanted a human trachea into a critically ill patient. One year later, that patient is surviving and thriving.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sonia Sein said she spent the last six years “trying to catch every breath at every moment” after extensive treatment for her severe asthma damaged her windpipe. She is breathing freely again after getting an unusual transplant. In January, doctors at New York’s Mount Sinai replaced her trachea, the tube that ferries air from the mouth to the lungs. Doctors say

A New York woman is looking forward to the future with her family after receiving the first trachea transplant After years of struggling to breathe and fearing she might suffocate in her sleep, Sonia Sein says she feels well enough to dance around with her grandchildren after undergoing the first-ever human trachea transplant at Mount Sinai in New York. “For me, it felt like right after, I was able to breathe. When I took that first breath it was heaven,” said Sein, who had the life-changin...

  After years of struggling to breathe and fearing she might suffocate in her sleep, Sonia Sein says she feels well enough to dance around with her grandchildren after undergoing the first-ever human trachea transplant at Mount Sinai in New York. "For me, it felt like right after, I was able to breathe. When I took that first breath it was heaven," said Sein, who had the life-changing surgery in January. The 56-year-old former social workers trachea was damaged in 2014 when she had to go on...

Apr 7, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — Sonia Sein said she spent the last six years “trying to catch every breath at every moment” after extensive treatment for her severe asthma damaged her windpipe. She is breathing freely again after getting an unusual transplant. In January, doctors at New York’s Mount Sinai replaced her trachea, the tube that ferries air from the mouth to the lungs. Doctors say this drastic operation could potentially help other people including COVID-19 patients left with se...

Woman thriving after first-of-its-kind transplant 01:33 (CNN)After years of struggling to breathe and fearing she might suffocate in her sleep, Sonia Sein says she feels well enough to dance around with her grandchildren after undergoing the first-ever human trachea transplant at Mount Sinai in New York. "For me, it felt like right after, I was able to breathe. When I took that first breath it was heaven," said Sein, who had the life-changing surgery in January. The 56-year-old former social w...

Experts say it’s too soon to deem Seins transplant a total success — which UNOS said is the first of its kind in the U.S. Sein has to take powerful drugs to prevent organ rejection, but doctors hope to try to wean her off in a few years. Less than three months after the operation, there havent been complications or signs of rejection. “If it was going to be a failure, we would know by now. It’s quite promising,” said Dr. Alec Patterson, a transplant surgeon at Washington University in...

feed to stay on top of the news. While experts say it is too early to deem the transplant a success, only three months following her operation, Sein has had no complications, but she needs to take anti-rejection drugs for the foreseeable future to ensure her body doesn’t reject the donor organ.  Though the trachea is seen as a small tube that allows air to flow into the lungs, doctors have said the act of transplanting a donor trachea to the recipient’s blood supply is complex and difficu...

Woman Gets New Windpipe In Groundbreaking Transplant Surgery By Richard Harris  April 6, 2021 A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a windpipe. The trachea is basically a tube that transports air to and from the lungs, so you might think it would be easy to transplant. But not so. In fact, trachea transplants have been one of the last big challenges in this area of medicine. A 56-year-old woman from the Bronx, New York, named Sonia Sein...