Minnesota: America’s Mayo Clinic has announced a major success in organ transplants, offering hope to thousands of people who have lost the ability to speak, swallow and breathe due to laryngeal damage.
In Arizona, a team of doctors successfully performed the third known total larynx transplant in the United States as part of a clinical trial. This is the first successful complete larynx transplant in America for a cancer patient.
An article about this case was published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The larynx is also known as the voice box. This transplant is a rare and complex procedure that has only been performed a few times worldwide.
Even more remarkable, the Mayo Clinic surgical team successfully performed the first-ever larynx transplant in an active cancer patient, making it one of the pioneering cases worldwide.
