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  Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells
Posted by: jill on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 07:24 AM
 
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Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells

By MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer

LONDON (AP) -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.

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  Product Recalls-2
Posted by: jill on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 09:19 AM
 
  Medical News
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Product recalls November 14, 2007- back to Jan 18, 2006

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  Mitral valve replacement and tricuspid annuloplasty via right mini-thoracotomy in a patient with tracheostomy.
Posted by: jill on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 10:20 AM
 
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Mitral valve replacement and tricuspid annuloplasty via right mini-thoracotomy in a patient with tracheostomy.
Becit N, Ceviz M, Biliciler N, Koçak H.

This report describes our experience in performing mitral valve replacement and tricuspid annuloplasty via a right mini-thoracotomy in a patient with tracheostomy.

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  Adjustable Flange Tracheostomy Tubes
Posted by: jill on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 10:16 AM
 
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Smiths Medical Launches Innovative Adjustable Flange Tracheostomy Tubes. Smiths Medical has announced the launch of a new Portex(R) Blue Line(R) series of tracheostomy tubes.

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  Biofilm formation on tracheostomy tubes
Posted by: jill on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 10:13 AM
 
  Medical News
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Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, Sept, 2002 by William A. Jarrett, Julie Ribes, Jose M. Manaligod
An increased awareness of biofilms and their mechanisms has led to a better understanding of bacterial infections that occur following the placement of tracheostomy tubes and other implanted devices and prostheses.

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  Past Articles

Thursday, November 15
·Device that Enables Fast, Precise Creation of Tracheal Window (0)
Saturday, December 30
·Is Tracheostomy Necessary? A Life and Breath Decision (0)
Friday, August 11
·Recycling Medical Devices Concerns (0)
Wednesday, April 12
·Rehabilitation Improves Smell in Total Laryngectomy Patients (0)
·Effective Strategies to Prepare Infants and Families for Home Tracheostomy Care (1)
·Presence of a tracheotomy tube and aspiration status in early, postsurgical head and neck cancer patients. (19)
·Tracheotomy for the long-term ventilator-dependent patient? (18)
·Study of Bacterial biofilm presence in pediatric tracheotomy tubes (17)
Sunday, September 18
· Laser Laryngectomy (0)
Monday, August 01
· Laser Cordotomy (1)
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