A new study reporting how a network of genes directs the development of the trachea and esophagus in mice has been published today in eLife. The results provide new insight on the genes present during ...

THE presence of a fistulous communication between the esophagus and trachea, without an accompanying esophageal atresia, is rarely reported and is not familiar to many physicians. The classification ...

CONGENITAL tracheoesophageal fistula without esophageal atresia has rarely been diagnosed in the first few days of life. This case reported below is presented to demonstrate that the condition does ...

A tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) occurs when a connection between the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus (the tube that connects the throat to the stomach) forms during fetal development before birth.

In back-to-back reports published Aug. 27, 2020, in Nature Communications, a team of scientists from Cincinnati Children's and Japan report discoveries that will be vital to a new wave of more-complex ...

If you or a loved one is suffering from gastrointestinal issues, your doctor may recommend an EndoFLIP procedure. This diagnostic tool offers accurate measurements of the area and pressure within ...

CINCINNATI - Scientists working to bioengineer the entire human gastrointestinal system in a laboratory now report using pluripotent stem cells to grow human esophageal organoids. Published in the ...

A man unknowingly swallowed his partial denture, causing an abnormal connection between his esophagus and trachea that required him to undergo two surgeries and eight months of recovery. The case ...

The next time you pop a pill, you probably won’t think about everything it took just to develop it. We want to develop new medicines and technologies that will help patients, but testing human ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --For the first time, researchers have bioengineered human esophageal tissue entirely from pluripotent stem cells. Researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for ...

Those button batteries that power your watch, key fob and other devices can be deadly if a child swallows them, and researchers want to make the danger clear. The tiny but powerful batteries can burn ...

Scientists working to bioengineer the entire human gastrointestinal system in a laboratory now report using pluripotent stem cells to grow human esophageal organoids. This is the first time scientists ...