These models served to create a splint that has helped three tracheobronchomalacia babies survive.
The tablets are implanted in the respiratorioas ways to keep them from collapsing. Science Translational Medicine
Kaiba, Garrett and Ian, are children who could not breathe normally because their windpipe collapsed periodically due to a malformation of the bronchi, which makes them softer of the usual and for which no known cure.
The Three Little became the first the world to benefit from devices that help them keep the airways, which were created with the technology of the current three-dimensional printers in the CS University Children’s Hospital open Mott Michigan (United States).
The evolution of the small has been followed closely to see how the tracheal splints that were implanted and are made of material that is reabsorbed work, published today in an article in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
One of the paper’s authors, doctor and professor of otolaryngology Glenn Green said that these cases were opened “new ways” to be able to use the three-dimensional printing to “design a device that has been restored successfully breathing patients through a procedure that had never been done before.”
The doctor recalled that before the existence of this implant, babies suffering from severe tracheobronchomalacia had little chance to survive and yet, Kaiba Gionfriddo, the first of the small treatises in 2012, is today “a healthy three year old who attends preschool and a bright future “.
The implanted splint worked” better than ever “experts could imagine without complications, so the researchers believe that this treatment is” a promising option “for children suffering from this threatening malformation and no cure.
The tracheal splint, which will be reabsorbed over time were made for each child using CT scans that took their tracheas and computer modeling laser to perform printing process, after which they were sewn in the airways to expand the trachea and bronchi.
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