KIMS Hospital Performs Rare Airway Stenting

Imagine your windpipe, which helps you breathe, is getting squeezed shut.

That's what happened to a 75-year-old woman.

Doctors at KIMS Hospital in Kurnool helped her by putting in a tiny tube called a stent to prop the windpipe open.

They used special tools to do this, called a rigid bronchoscopy, so they could see exactly where to put the tube.

The woman had been having trouble breathing because of her esophageal cancer.

After the procedure, she could breathe much easier, and didn't need a big surgery.

This shows how doctors can use new techniques to save lives.