Stents made from 3-D printing saves three infant boys

Karen Weintraub has a story at MIT Technology Review about doctors who

rescue boys by propping open their airways using stents made via 3-D printing.

The three infant boys were each near death. They were all on ventilators. All had airways so tiny that the breaths they tried to exhale couldn’t get out.

As a last-ditch effort to save their lives, doctors at the University of Michigan used a 3-D printer to produce small plastic stents that surgeons attached, just above the boys’ lungs, to prop the airways open.

Read more here.

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