Woman Gets New Windpipe In Groundbreaking Transplant Surgery

Sonia Sein with her surgeons and ICU team at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a trachea. These kinds of transplants are one of the last big transplant challenges.

(Image credit: Claudia Paul/Mount Sinai Health System)

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