“I can’t do this anymore,” Sonia Sein told herself, her family and her doctor. For six years, she had endured a tube inserted in her windpipe, or trachea, to keep her alive, but her discomfort and ...

A collapsed trachea occurs when the cartilage in your throat becomes softer and begins to fall inward. You may be born with it, or it may develop because of a condition, treatment, or injury. A ...