View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. After Castillo’s own trachea had partially collapsed following complications from tuberculosis, Paolo Macchiarini at the Hospital Clínic of ...

It is made up of rings of cartilage that form a tube-like structure. The cartilage helps to hold the trachea open and prevent it from collapsing. A collapsing trachea is a chronic medical ...

He explained that a stent is a spring-like device designed to hold the trachea open, preventing collapse and improving airflow to the lungs. Mia’s owners first sought help at the hospital’s ...

The trachea has a number of adaptations: cartilage rings in the walls of the trachea help to keep it open ciliated epithelium and goblet cells to clean the air before it reaches the lungs Goblet ...