The wound exposed his windpipe and required 20 staples following surgery, which has left him scarred.
German price indexes are actually negative, which is sort of like the country's windpipe being pinched.
If you have apnea, you may need a sleeping device that gently forces air into your windpipe.
The patient's new windpipe, or trachea, was made from a special plastic material and her own cells.
She plunged the weapon into 21-year-old Mr Martin's chest, damaging his lungs, windpipe and a main artery.
By not pressing on the animal's windpipe, it enabled the animal to drag greater weight and faster than an ox.
Just after the muscles start to move, the glottis shuts off the windpipe to produce the characteristic "hic" sound.
The new windpipe was designed and fabricated from the same type of plastic that is used to make soft-drink and water bottles.
The purpose was to "seed" the synthetic windpipe -- as you would seed a new lawn -- to grow on the structure.
Rescuers have long monitored patients' breathing tubes for carbon dioxide to make sure the device was correctly placed in the windpipe instead of the esophagus.
The Fed is inadvertently putting its thumb on the world's windpipe.
Aaron's windpipe disintegrated and he suffered several other injuries, including burns to his stomach, pancreas and spleen, after he drank the liquid on 6 November 2010.
Scientists have implanted a laboratory-made windpipe into a toddler who was born without one, the latest advance in the quest to grow viable human organs in the lab.
But the two-year-old girl is expected to outgrow the windpipe in four or five years, at which point she will need a new, larger one, said Dr. Macchiarini.
While surgeons have performed several windpipe transplants in adults, this is the first time it has been attempted in a child, a scenario that presents many challenges.
Common symptoms include vocal fatigue, throat discomfort associated with speaking, hoarseness, as well as a chronic cough due to aspiration (food or liquids going down the trachea or windpipe).
Three years ago, Macchiarini made headlines by implanting an artificial trachea created from donor tissue combined with stem cells from the recipient, Claudia Castillo, whose windpipe had been damaged by tuberculosis.
For children born with a windpipe defect or without one, and for others with defective or diseased organs, manipulating stem cells to generate healthy tissues or organs could be their only chance at survival.
Marley, a Labrador, got stem-cell therapy for his arthritis, surgery on his windpipe to deal with a condition that was choking off his breathing, and, at the end, medication to ease the pain of advanced cancer.
Mrs Skeet discovered on Thursday that her cancer, which was not thought to have spread when the operation was first due to have been done five weeks ago, has now spread to her windpipe and was inoperable.
Macchiarini performed the nine-hour operation on April 9 at the Children's Hospital of Illinois after carefully creating the windpipe using stem cells from Hannah's bone marrow that were saturated over a matrix of plastic fibers shaped into a tube.
Exactly what happens to the windpipe after it is transplanted isn't clear, but researchers believe that placing stem cells, which are capable of developing into different types of body cells, can pick up signals from their environment and integrate with existing tissues.
However, he said the symptoms that are associated with thyroid nodules include tenderness in the thyroid area, ear or jaw pain, difficulty or discomfort swallowing, a tickling feeling in the throat and shortness of breath with exertion because the nodule may be compressing the windpipe.
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