A team of doctors at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital are making history.
They successfully created the world’s first voice box reconstruction, changing a little boy’s life.
Cooper Kilburn, a 2-year-old from Adamsville, Tennessee, was born with Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome.
This means his trachea and larynx were blocked and he would have no voice or way to breathe.
“The mortality rate is easily high, 90 percent for this diagnosis, possibly even higher,” said Doctor Jerome Thompson, otolaryngologist.