Table 3. Long-term Follow-up of Patients Who Had a Tracheal or Bronchial Transplantation.

Patient No.	Types of Complications During Long-Term Follow-up	Stent Removed?	Last Follow-upa	Status	Clinical Status
Tracheal Transplantation
2	Laryngeal edema and stent bacterial infection	Yes at 15 mo	7 y and 1 mo	Alive	Breathes and speaks normally through newly formed airways
3	Tracheal granuloma and graft malacia requiring repeated bronchoscopies	No	6 y and 10 mo	Alive	Breathes and speaks through a translaryngeal stent
4	Tracheal granuloma and graft malacia requiring repeated bronchoscopies	Yes at 39 mo	6 y and 1 mo	Alive	Breathes and speaks normally through newly formed airways
17	Tracheal granuloma related to the stent requiring bronchoscopy	No	1 y and 6 mo	Alive	No cancer recurrence; breathes and speaks through the stented aortic graft
20	Tracheal granuloma related to the stent requiring bronchoscopy and tracheostomy during months 5-7	Yes at 5 mo	9 mo	Alive	No cancer recurrence; breathes and speaks normally through newly formed airways
Bronchial Transplantation
1	Bronchial granuloma related to the stent requiring bronchoscopy	No	2 y and 6 mo	Dead	Diffuse metastases
7	Bronchial granuloma related to the stent requiring bronchoscopy	Yes at 15 mo	5 y and 1 mo	Alive	No cancer recurrence; breathes normally through newly formed airways
8	None	Yes at 22 mo	3 y and 2 mo	Dead	No cancer recurrence but had a myocardial infarction
9	Bronchial granuloma related to the stent requiring bronchoscopy	Yes at 22 mo	4 y and 8 mo	Alive	No cancer recurrence; breathes normally through newly formed airways
10	None	Yes at 17 mo	3 y and 11 mo	Alive	No tumor recurrence; breathes normally through newly formed airways
13	None	Yes at 15 mo	3 y	Alive	No cancer recurrence; breathes normally through newly formed airways
14	None	Yes at 14 mo	2 y and 10 mo	Alive	No cancer recurrence; breathes normally through newly formed airways

^aFrom the date of the operation.