Windpipe transplant success in UK child
Posted: Fri 19th March, 2010 at 13:49
A 10-year-old British boy has become the first child to undergo a windpipe transplant with an organ crafted from his own stem cells.
It is hoped that using the boy´s own tissue in the nine-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital will cut the risk of rejection.
The world´s first tissue-engineered windpipe transplant was done in Spain in 2008 but with a shorter graft.
Doctors say the boy is doing well and breathing normally.
He has a rare condition called Long Segment Congenital Tracheal Stenosis, in which patients are born with an extremely narrow airway
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