For decades doctors had tried to divert air from the windpipe back up into the blocked-off pharynx.
In a transplant first, doctors in Spain gave Claudia Lorena Castillo Sanchez, 30, a new windpipe, constructed from a donor trachea lined with Sanchez's own stem cells.
The animal is unfit if either windpipe or gullet is torn out or removed from its regular position during the slaughtering.
St Jerome in Kingman Daily Miner According to them, she'd died of the vomit that had come up and closed off her windpipe,Jerome said in a recent interview. "When I got there, she was on life support, but I talked to one of the doctors there and he said, 'There's no way,...
Richard Hill in Sportinglife.co.za Hill said: "For him to come back after a nasty throat injury - it was a bizarre fracture of the windpipe - and play like that showed what he can do. He bullocked his way over for two tries and I was very pleased with the second-half performance from...
Alex McLeish in Football365.com The lads were having a right good laugh about it in there. We thought that the big fella was in a life-threatening situation but I think he got winded after getting smashed in the windpipe,said Big Eck.