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Our daughter is also treated at U of M and has laryngo/tracheo/broncho malacia. We have enjoyed following your advancements!!! Now that patients have been successfully treated using your techniques what are your future plans with the same technology? What have the downsides of this treatment been? Thank you for the amazing work you do! Go Blue!

Thank you for the reply! Keep up the great work! I look forward to reading about any further work in the future. Do you think at some point it could be scaled down in the future to not be an open chest procedure? Could the same technology be applied to those older children or adults with secondary tracheo/broncho malacia?

Hands down for me it was blimpie burger. So sad it's gone. I forget the name of this one Chinese place that is good too...

What prevents the body from growing scar tissue over the split? Would a permanent repair be to allow the scaffolding to attach to the bronchi or trachea and tissue to fill in the area to make the trachea stronger less susceptible to collapse? Our daughters heart patch we have been told the body fills it in and essentially fills over the patch with scar tissue. Could this same premise be used here on the outside of the airway (obviously adding the lumen of the bronchi would be problematic if scar tissue filled it in).

I would love to someday see you in the clinic. I have so many questions and this has made me have even more! Your colleague will be getting lots of big questions when we see him in a month! Thanks again for taking the time to answer!