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After 18 hours in the operating room, doctors from New York were able to perform for the first time a successful transplant of a complete trachea - an operation that was defined as "one of the great challenges of breast and neck surgery"


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Breakthrough transplant: "This is the holy grail of surgery"

After 18 hours in the operating room, doctors from New York were able to perform a successful complete trachea transplant for the first time - an operation that was defined only last year as "one of the great challenges of breast and neck surgery"

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Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 07:16 Updated: 08:43

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A complex transplant that lasted 18 hours.

Doctors in operating room (Photo: ShutterStock)

In 2014 Sonia Seine was hospitalized following a severe asthma attack.

Her condition was so severe that doctors had to insert a tube into her trachea to clear an airway for her.

However, during the procedure, her trachea was severely damaged, and a number of subsequent surgeries failed to repair the injury.



As a result, she had no choice but to perform a trachea (tracheostomy) - a surgery in which a hole is made in the trachea and in the skin of the neck and a tube is inserted into the trachea to maintain an open passage to the air that bypasses the upper respiratory system

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This weighed heavily on the quality of life of Seine, who found it difficult to breathe even after the barrel fumble and she was forced to resign from her job as a social worker and for the past six years has been confined to her New York apartment.

The New York Times reports.

She was so desperate that she even considered asking the doctors to remove the tube, even though it would have resulted in her death almost certainly.

Severe impairment of the patient's quality of life.

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But in a surprising and precedent-setting turn in the story, Seine was given a second chance at life, after a team of doctors successfully performed a complete trachea of ​​a trachea in her throat.

This is the first time in history that an entire tracheal transplant procedure is successful, according to the surgical team that performed the surgery.

The trachea implanted in Seine's body came from an unidentified organ donor.



The complex transplant, which lasted 18 hours, was led by surgeon Dr. Eric Ganden of Mount Sinai Hospital, who for years has been trying to crack the complex challenges that have caused respiratory transplants to fail again and again in recent years. Attempts to implant an entire cane or longer sections of the trachea ended in stinging failures.An article published in 2020 even said that this surgical procedure has become "one of the biggest challenges in breast and neck surgery."

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The trachea was implanted as a complete unit along with the esophagus and thyroid gland.

Woman holding her throat (Photo: ShutterStock)

The most significant challenge is to ensure a normal blood supply to the transplanted cane after surgery.

For years, doctors believed that the trachea received its blood supply from an intricate system of tiny blood vessels that would be impossible to reconnect to a transplanted organ.

However, Dr. Ganden discovered that this explanation was incorrect: Larger blood vessels, which pass through the thyroid and esophagus, also route blood to the trachea. Therefore, in Seine's surgery he not only implanted the donor's trachea, but left it connected to other organs: The thyroid and blood vessels connected to it and the esophagus - and implanted them as a whole unit.



"It's like some holy grail we were all trying to get," Dr. Ganden said in an interview with NPR after the surgery.

Whereas Seine is happy that she has won her life back: "We were supposed to plan my funeral, and instead we're planning a birthday party," she said.

After recovering from the surgery, she is able to function and play with her grandchildren again, and even enrolled in acupuncture studies.

Next month she will celebrate her 57th birthday.

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