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Doctors print up a splint for baby's blocked throat
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Mike
May 22, 2013, 6:25:33 PM5/22/13
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The Youngstown, Ohio baby turned blue again and again as his little
airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors
used a 3-D bioprinter to custom-make a splint that is holding his
airway open and helping him breathe.
Now 19-month-old Kaiba Gionfriddo is �into everything�, says his
mother, April Gionfriddo.
"Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the
hospital alive," she adds.
Kaiba�s life was saved by a brand-new field of regenerative medicine
based on plastics and inkjet printers. Doctors at the University of
Michigan used CT scans of Kaiba�s little airways to custom-design a
scaffolding to pull open the passages and hold them open until they
could grow strong and healthy on their own.
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18425715-doctors-print-up-a-splint-for-babys-blocked-throat?lite
airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors
used a 3-D bioprinter to custom-make a splint that is holding his
airway open and helping him breathe.
Now 19-month-old Kaiba Gionfriddo is �into everything�, says his
mother, April Gionfriddo.
"Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the
hospital alive," she adds.
Kaiba�s life was saved by a brand-new field of regenerative medicine
based on plastics and inkjet printers. Doctors at the University of
Michigan used CT scans of Kaiba�s little airways to custom-design a
scaffolding to pull open the passages and hold them open until they
could grow strong and healthy on their own.
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18425715-doctors-print-up-a-splint-for-babys-blocked-throat?lite
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