Pacemaker For Larynx Allows Patients To Breathe Easier

23 September 1999

The new device for bilateral paralysis of the larynx is an Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG) that allows a patient to speak and breathe normally. The device was recently implanted, for the first time ever in the United States, in a Missouri woman.

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Doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (not identified)	Science Daily, September 23, 1999, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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