Doctors have successfully carried out the world’s first airway transplant on a young woman using an organ partly grown from her own stem cells in a groundbreaking operation which scientists believe will transform the future of surgery. Surgeons replaced a section of Claudia Castillo’s windpipe, that had been irreparably damaged by tuberculosis, with a donated organ that was stripped of its cells and used as a scaffold for her stem cells.
Additional Stories
- ‘My unique chance’: How Claudia Castillo’s landmark operation changed her life - The Guardian 19th November 2008
- The medical miracle - The Independent 19th November 2008
- Claudia Castillo: The pioneer’s story - The Independent 19th November 2008
- Claudia Castillo gets windpipe tailor-made from her own stem cells - The Times 19th November 2008
- An event that might really deserve to be called a breakthrough - The Times 19th November 2008
- British doctors help perform world’s first transplant of a whole organ grown in lab - The Telegraph 18th November 2008
- Mother’s life transformed as doctors unveil first ever whole organ stem cell transplant in new dawn for medical science - Daily Mail 19th November 2008
- Windpipe transplant breakthrough - BBC Health News 19th November 2008
- ‘I was scared, but it went well’ - BBC Health News 19th November 2008
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