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Woman 'breathing freely' after rare windpipe transplant, surgery could help recovering COVID-19 patients By Marion Renault and Marshall Ritzel Published  Medical studies finding possible long-term effects of COVID-19 This study followed patients who had a mild case of COVID-19 for up to nine months after recovery - and found about a third of them had persisting symptoms. NEW YORK - 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 unus...

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 serious windpipe damage from breathing machines. “We’ve talked for 100 years about just putting in...

Experts say it’s too soon to deem Sein's 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 haven't 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 St. Louis who was not involved in the operation. "It’s a major step forward.”

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 difficult.  “It is just technically extremely difficult,” David Klassen, chief medical officer for the...

Woman recovering after rare windpipe transplant from donor MARION RENAULT and MARSHALL RITZEL, Associated Press April 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6Trachea 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 on Monday, March, 22, 2021. Sein says she had spent the last six years “trying to catch every breath at every moment" after extensive treatment for her severe asthma damaged her windpipe. But she is breathing freely again after a January windpipe transplant.Marshal...