The atretic upper esophagus ends in a blind pouch, and the trachea communicates with the distal esophagus. Air enters the GI tract via the tracheoesophageal fistula and the newborn presents clinically ...

What Is an EndoFLIP Procedure? EndoFLIP stands for endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe. This newer technology is a minimally invasive way of measuring the area inside a gastrointestinal organ ...

The trachea is also called windpipe The trachea and esophagus run parallel to each other through the chest cavity. The esophagus is connected to the stomach, and helps in carrying food and saliva to ...

New insight on the genes that allow the wind and food pipe to separate during development may help scientists understand the possible causes of birth defects where the two organs remain joined. A ...

IN 1931, I performed an autopsy on a five-month-old baby who had had wheezing respirations since birth and had recently developed difficulty in swallowing. At this examination a ring of blood vessels ...

Surgeons have successfully transplanting bioengineered stem cell-based trachea, composed of both artificial and biological material. Now they plan to use the technique to recreate more complex tissues ...

IN any case of pulmonary disease of obscure origin an x-ray examination of the esophagus with barium may demonstrate some disease of the esophagus that causes regurgitation of food and saliva into the ...

BOSTON (CBS) ---- A local company is part of a second breakthrough in regeneration of human body parts. A research team led by Paolo Macchiarin at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has successfully ...

The adult human esophagus is an 18- to 25-cm long muscular tube that has cervical, thoracic, and abdominal parts. The esophagus wall is composed of striated muscle in the upper part, smooth muscle in ...