Technology of victory! 3 d printing to save bronchial soften baby

Recently because the 3 d printing technology is used in the manufacture of guns, and the media to the forefront. But you don't forget, 3 d printing also can be used to save lives.
A baby boy in the Ohio Kaiba Gionfriddo, in six weeks was diagnosed with congenital tracheal bronchus softening, cause collapse of trachea, oxygen cannot smoothly into the lungs, always run the risk of suffocation. Before operation, a baby can only rely on inserted into the trachea to maintain ventilation.
In securing baby permission from parents as well as the relevant institutions of the university of Michigan, Michigan, school of medicine, using 3 d printers, according to the patients with chest CT images, print out the shape of the trachea and a piece of plywood. Then, the doctor put the plywood in patients with chest, supporting airway collapse, so that the air flowing. Operation is completed, the baby use 21 days of breathing machine, and then recovered discharged from hospital. Today more than a year of time has passed, the child can already spontaneous breathing, and plywood has not any different.
This 3 d printing plywood only takes up a day, compared to the previous hand made more fast, cost only a third. And it USES is poly (ethyl acetate material, belongs to the biodegradable plastic, also be used to make surgical sutures. This piece of plywood about degradation will be in 3 years later, but at that time in patients with respiratory function has been fully mature, can out of plywood.
The baby was lucky, it is the first 3 d printer application of clinical cases. The medical achievement are published in the New England journal of medicine, the author thinks "high-definition images, the 3 d print combination of computer and biological materials, can be specified for patients, to promote creating implantable devices." Similarly, using 3 d printers to produce bone, teeth, and already is considered a possible direction.
Currently bioprinting pioneer Organovo, calif., company has been successful use of 3 d printing to create "mini liver", and it can survive more than five days; Cornell university with the aid of mouse tail and decorative, print out the human ear. Believe farther in the future, have the vitality of organs can be printed.
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