Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said Friday that the tracheal tube makes talking difficult for Chavez.
Hannah was born in Seoul with a rare condition called tracheal agenesis, or the lack of a trachea.
Chavez is temporarily having difficulty speaking after doctors inserted a tracheal tube, Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said.
As a result, he sustained multiple fractures and was in a coma for two weeks, leading to tracheal stenosis.
This resulted in a significant tracheal occlusion and chronic infection of the trachea and lungs, along with a wide fissure in the neck.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said that as the Venezuelan leader was breathing through a tracheal tube, it was difficult for him to speak.
"Given that circumstance, which is being duly treated, Comandante Chavez is currently breathing through a tracheal cannula, which temporarily hinders speech, " Villegas said.
In one type of laryngoplasty, an implant made of a surgical polymer is placed inside the tracheal wall (as support) to medialize the affected vocal cord.
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State officials said the leader was facing some difficulty speaking because of a tracheal tube that had been inserted to help him breathe, though the apparatus wasn't visible in the published pictures.
Along with images of the puffy-faced Chavez came a government explanation for why no one has heard from the longtime president since his surgery: He's breathing through a tracheal tube that makes speech difficult.
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