Doctors in a private hospital in Gurgaon successfully performed a rare slide tracheloplasty with laryngotracheal reconstruction surgery on three-year-old Chris Williams from Malawi, an African country. Doctors at the private hospital here said Williams was born with extremely rare congenital anomaly where his entire wind pipe from voice box to lungs was narrowed by a condition called complete tracheal rings, this made it difficult for him to breathe and speak. Essentially, as the child grew up, his wind pipe was not able to enlarge sufficiently and the condition worsened.
Williams was then referred to the hospital in October after his previous multiple surgeries failed. The senior consultant Pediatric ENT and director pediatric cardiac surgery, at the hospital said: "Since it was a do or die situation, multiple consultations with airway experts in the US and the UK were taken. A team of…
