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
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.
Sonia Sein, 56, underwent the first trachea transplant in the U.S. in January
The procedure may even be a world-first, but this was not confirmed by UNOS
Sein said she spent the past six years trying to catch every breath at every moment after being intubated during an asthma attack damaged her trachea
The trachea, or windpipe, is difficult to transplant due to its complex system of blood vessels and tiny hairs that are key to its function
Sein is recovering and so far doing well, and breathing easily
As many as half of Covid patients put on ventilators sustain trachea damage, according to one Italian study
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